Randy Gibson
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Cage100 Party Pieces | Miller Theater at Columbia University | New York City
Featuring the work:
One Wall — for John Cage
Randy Gibson contributed one of 125 individual compositions to this monumental tribute to John Cage.
This new, evening-length work brings together 125 short compositions by 125 different composers, written according to a compositional model created by Cage in 1945. An adaptation of a parlor game popular with Surrealist artists, Cage’s rules are fairly simple: each participant receives a small portion of blank manuscript paper, along with the final few notes of the composition that will precede theirs in performance. Within the given space, the composers—among them William Bolcolm, Jason Eckardt, Kamran Ince, Lei Liang, David T. Little, and Keeril Makan—write whatever they please, passing their final measure on to the next composer in line. Assembled for the first time in performance, the resulting piece is an incredible amalgam of different styles, influences, methods, and perspectives—a whole that is, without a doubt, greater than the sum of its parts
Performed by Either/Or Ensemble under the direction of Richard Carrick