Concert of improvised music, featuring AACM member and multi-instrumentalist Douglas Ewart, cellist and bassist Kash Killion, instrument builder Walter Kitundu, and live electronics by David Wessel.
Improvised music concert, July 27, 2003
Singing the lines (2008)
for soprano, flute/piccolo, B-flat clarinet, double bass, percussion, and piano, 9’
music by Cindy Cox
text by John Campion
I. “Light changes”
II. “Walking, Naming It”
performed by Lucy Shelton, soprano
Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players
David Milnes, conducting
The large-scale form for ME mirrors the classic seven yogic steps as follows:
1. Preconscious ME, Open Vowel Space
2. ME Builds the Language Wall
3. ME Sings His Narcissistic Canon
4. ME Sings His Greatest Song
5. ME Speaks to the Crowd.
6. ME Speaks to His Prompter
7. ME Is Cast Into the Future and Dies
Edmund Campion, music
John Campion, text and concept
L’Autre (The Other)
ELLIPSIS, 1995
Acquario Romano, Rome, Italy
In collaboration with artists Andrew Ginzel and Kristen Jones
June 21 from sunset to midnight
Sponsored by: Commune di Roma
American Academy in Rome
Dimensions: H 70' x W. 45' x D. 135' (21.3 x 13.7 x 41.1 m.)
Elements: 4,000 water filled glasses
Hemispherical vessels
Bay laurel trees
Circumnavigating solar light
Mirrors
