Performances of Eastman, Reich, and Lucier Coming to LA

Source: M.E.C..

PROGRAM TO INCLUDE:
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Julius EASTMAN – BUDDHA
Steve REICH – DRUMMING part III
Alvin LUCIER – SILVER STREETCAR FOR THE ORCHESTRA
Steve REICH – FOUR ORGANS

PERFORMED by ECHOI:
Vicki RAY, organ
Richard AN, organ
Todd MOELLENBERG, organ
Dustin DONAHUE, organ and glockenspiel
Yuri INOO, glockenspiel
Kevin GOOD, glockenspiel
Jonathan HEPFER, maracas, glockenspiel, triangle

Jonathan HEPFER, artistic director
ABOUT THE PROGRAM :
Monday Evening Concerts joins forces with Jeffrey Deitch to present a program of classic works from the 1970s and ’80s in (abstract) conversation with the internationally renowned artist Refik Anadol’s exhibition of ‘Living Paintings.’ Anadol’s works focus on human-computer collaboration, utilizing AI as an active – and destabilizing – element in the artistic process. Anadol’s work conjures memories of Steve Reich’s landmark essay Music as a Grandual Process (1968), in which the composer describes the dance between compositional – and performative – rigor, and the unpredictable psychoacoustic phenomena which arise therefrom. Reich was an early advocate of seeing new technology (in his case, tape) as an interesting device for generating new ways of making music, seeing it not as a replacement for human performance, but rather as a collaborative partner enabling new possibilities for the shape of music to come.