DAVID TUDOR: Current Activities

SOUNDING: OCEAN DIARY - NEW YORK CITY
The Lincoln Center Festival OPENING NIGHT is Tuesday, July 12 when the Merce Cunningham
Dance Company gives the first of five performances of Ocean, the final
collaboration between Cunningham and legendary composer John Cage, which
had its New York premiere in the inaugural year of the Lincoln Center
Festival in 1996. Ocean, inspired by the multi-layered writings of James
Joyce (an influence on much of the two collaborators' work) is performed in
the round with the dancers on stage, surrounded by the audience, which is
in turn surrounded by 112 musicians. Simulataneous performance of David Tudor's score is performed utilizing a multichannel array of moveable loudspeakers hanging from above. Performances will take place in the
new Rose Theater.
More information on the Festival web site.
Soundings: Ocean Diary
Lincoln Center Festival July 12-16, 2005 as part of a performance with Merce Cunninghams "Ocean". New York City.
NEURAL SYNTHESIS NO. 18 - ST. JOHN'S NEWFOUNDLAND
Sound Symposium 2002, July 5-15, 2002. Realization by John D.S. Adams.

NEURAL SYNTHESIS NO. 17 - BERLIN, GERMANY

John D.S. Adams performing
David Tudor’s, Neural Synthesis No. 17
When: 8:00 pm, December 2, 2001.
Where: Oranienstrasse 39, 10999 Berlin.
t ++49 30 614 02 112
f ++49 30 614 02 166

Part of Marc Sabat's loft series, "local music".
http://www.interlog.com/~masa/localmusic.html

NEURAL SYNTHESIS NO. 16 - BREMEN, GERMANY

John D.S. Adams performing
David Tudor’s, Neural Synthesis No. 16
When: 8:00 pm, November 30, 2001.
Where: Galerie Katrin Rabus, Plantage 13 28215 Bremen.
Tel. 0421 / 35 65 68

Part of the festival...
“Machinations Imaginations -
Musik erfinden mit maschinischen Verfahren”

Von Freitag, den 30. November bis Sonntag, den 2. December 2001
In Galerie Katrin Rabus, Plantage 13 28215 Bremen. Tel. 0421 / 35 65 68

Presented by projektgruppe neue musik bremen e.v.

"The Art of David Tudor: Indeterminacy and Performance in Postwar Culture"

A symposium sponsored by the Getty Research Institute in collaboration with California Institute of the Arts School of Music, May 17-19, 2001

An international group of scholars, composers, and art historians will make the collections of the Getty Research Institute a point of departure for a critical analysis of the piano performance and live electronic music of the American musical pioneer David Tudor (1926-1996). Scholars will address Tudor's methods of interpretation and composition, his collaboration with visual artists, composers, and choreographers, and his relation to the postwar American and European avant-gardes. They will position his work within the context of contemporary artistic practices that emerged from the intersection of musical indeterminacy, performance, and the newly conceived art object.

The symposium draws its central ideas from the following Research Institute collections: the papers of David Tudor; the papers of the poet and writer Mary Caroline Richards, who taught at Black Mountain College with John Cage, Tudor, Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg; and the archives of Experiments in Art and Technology, an organization co-directed by Rauschenberg and the electrical engineer Billy Kluver. Please see the Collections Overview page for more information on these and other relevant collections.

In addition to two days of paper sessions, the symposium will present a "Panel of David Tudor's Friends and Collaborators," featuring Jean Rigg as moderator with Billy Kluver, Jackie Monnier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, and Christian Wolff as panelists. A series of events co-sponsored with California Institute of the Arts will include concerts on May 18 and 19 of music composed by Tudor or written for him, and a realization of Tudor's "electroacoustic environment," Rainforest IV, created by a collective of CalArts composers and performers under the direction of Mark Trayle, with guest participants Ralph Jones, Paul DeMarinis, Bill Viola, John Driscoll, John D.S. Adams, and Ron Kuivila. Piano repertoire on the two concerts will be selected from the GRI's David Tudor Papers and performed by Vicki Ray and David Rosenboom.
Performance 2000

Taking place at Southampton University, UK
Matt Rogalsky will be performing on David Tudor's Virtual Focus sound table .
April 27, 2000.
-Afternoon perfomance
-5 pm Talk.