7:00–9:00 pm Wednesday, December 5
Leroy Neiman Center
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
37 S. Wabash Avenue
Chicago IL 60603
Variations VI (1966), for a plurality of sound-systems (any sources, components and loud-speakers) will be performed by students, faculty, and others in the Leroy Neiman Center at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, on Wednesday, December 5, 2012. Variations VI is one of a set of seven variations composed between 1958 and 1967 by American composer, John Cage (September 5, 1912 — August 12, 1992).
This performance was organized by composer, instrumentalist, and SAIC Faculty member Julia Miller. Projects/Systems/Scores are designed by its performers: Lee Blalock, James Connolly, Anna Friz, Eric Leonardson, Julia A. Miller, Alyssa Moxley, Enid Smith, and Will Soderberg. Located in downtown Chicago, the Neiman Center is SAIC’s first ever campus center, recently opened in May 2012.
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About the Variations VI Graphic Score [source: http://www.johncage.info/workscage/variations6.html]
The first performance included electronic circuitry, microphones, radio, tape and a television set. The materials consist of a page with a straight line and 2 transparencies. The first transparency contains 12 short straight lines an 38 triangles. The other transparency contains 57 short bisected lines (90 degrees) and 114 half circles with diameters. The triangles represent loudspeakers, the bisected lines represent components (exclusive of mixers, triggering devices, antennas etc. Inclusive of amplifiers, pre-amps, modulators and filters) and the half circles indicate the sound sources. The lines are used for the placement of the sound sources. By cutting up all needed lines and symbols and superimposing these elements a program can be obtained.
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