Low Concept
Low ConceptPerformance by David Miller, Joanne Rice, Jed Speare, Cathy Nolan Vincevic, Alisia WallerMarch 30-31, 8 pmread more
View ArticleLow Concept: "A Solo Performance for Five People?"
When Jane Wang asked me to make a performance for the Art of the UnGrand series, we may both have had the default assumption that it would be a solo performance. Certainly that was my assumption at...
View ArticleLow Concept and the space itself
When I began work on this piece last fall - when it still seemed like it might truly be a solo performance - I pretty much knew nothing to begin with. (Thus the title.) I started by gathering together...
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Low Concept: Experimental? Theater?
When Jane Wang was putting together the Art of the UnGrand Series, she asked me if I would develop an experimental theater contribution. I was happy to take that on. It has been sort of my brand over...
View ArticleLow Concept: Photo/Video documentation
To follow up on the performances last weekend of Low Concept (March 30 and 31), we've pulled together a Flickr photo album set, and three videos on Vimeo by John Rice.read more
View ArticleLow Concept: Friday night open source text
During each performance I did a fair amount of free-text writing from my notebook computer, projected for the audience to read on a larger monitor. You can see this in one of the photographs. I also...
View ArticleLow Concept: Saturday night open source text
This is the text generated by the audience members and me during the Low Concept performance on Saturday. This is available for anyone to use for any purpose, in part or whole, as long as it's...
View ArticleLow Concept: gestures from O Superman
There were three sources of preexisting material in the performances of Low Concept: Brecht/Weill's song Die Seeräuber-Jenny ("Pirate Jenny"), the Adagio from Ravel's G major piano concerto, and Laurie...
View ArticleHappy 100th, John Cage! Some Performance Notes
John Cage was born on September 5, 1912. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth, Tom Plsek and I (with guests) will present three of his works, centered on the trombone: the Solo for Sliding...
View ArticleHappy 100th, John Cage! - notes on Ryoanji
As mentioned in the previous post, on September 5 Tom Plsek and I are celebrating John Cage's 100th birthday with a free concert at the Berklee College of Music Practice Facility on Fordham Road in...
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