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American Gamelan, Past and Present, With AMERICAN GAMELAN, PAST AND PRESENT Cornish Presents: NEXT ON CORNISH PRESENTS THANKS AMERICAN GAMELAN, NoiseFold Special thanks to the Cornish Presents season Friday, December 12 at 8 pm sponsor Washington State Arts Commission. Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center PAST AND PRESENT NoiseFold is the collective identity of David Stout and Cory Metcalf, artists working at the Sunday, December 7, 2014 digital nexus of cinema, music and visual arts. Co-presented with The Institute of Emergent Technology + Intermedia (iET+I), the evening GAMELAN PACIFICA opens with a performance by CLEE (Cornish Live special guest composer DANIEL SCHMIDT Electronic Ensemble) . vocalist JESSIKA KENNEY Tickets: $10 GA, free for students directed by JARRAD POWELL PROGRAM Gendhing bonang TUKUNG kethuk 4 kerep minggah 8, laras pélog pathet barang As Evening Falls D. Schmidt The Edge of Sleep D. Schmidt -intermission- A Tuesday Morning S. Parris Ketawang gendhing KABOR kethuk 2 kerep minggah ladrang KRAWITAN, laras sléndro pathet nem Gendhing Lou Harrison D. Schmidt Stay Connected! Please be respectful of our performers and your fellow audience members by turning off your cell phones before the www.cornish.edu/presents performance begins. Facebook: Cornish Presents Video and audio recording are not permitted in PONCHO Concert Hall. Twitter: @CornishPresents BIOS CONTINUED PROGRAM NOTES Music Concern, including Non Grata, Special GAMELAN PACIFICA MEMBERS As Evening Falls Like in As Evening Falls, the text is presented O.P.S., and the Raymond Scott Project. He is The opening, called a pathetan, is played by again, but in a shortened form, and in a very currently working towards a Masters degree at Jackie An just two players. A pathetan serves to usher different rhythm. This new rhythm continues Mills College, and holds a Bachelors in compo- Maggie Brown those present into the mode and the feeling of into the last section, where a strong, interesting sition from Cornish College of the Arts. Michael Dorrity the music to come. As it ends, the main piece melody predominates. Stephen Fandrich gently begins. The singer presents the poem in JESSIKA KENNEY is a composer/singer who Peter Freeman its entirety (see text). There follows an instru- Gending Lou Harrison does not fear untraveled paths. She is renowned Deena Manis mental interlude that allows one to reflect on This piece was originally written as a training by multiple audiences for the vastly different Richard Robinson the text. When the singer re-enters, the text is piece for my advanced students. Traditional musical forms she has integrated into a distinct Stephanie Shadbolt presented reflectively. The piece closes with forms are used: the short, quick lancaran, fol- style. Her reverence for, and interpretations of Matt Shoemaker the same pathetan, but with a change of play- lowed by the larger, slower section, called lad- South East Asian and Persian vocal traditions Jesse Snyder ers. rang, with group singing. All of this material is have formed the basis for her main improvisa- Christina Sunardi close to traditional Javanese music. However, tional work. Simultaneously, an ongoing series Astrid Vinje The text is presented twice in its entirety. You I thought that the piece needed some rhythmic of collaborations with her husband, composer/ Beth Yip might ask why. Using the device of stretching it interest, perhaps to please my students, so I violist Eyvind Kang, have her embracing the out the second time, I offer the chance to really made up a little piece and called it Trinket. You avant-garde audience. Add to that her perfor- get the meaning. My wife, Deborah Schmidt, will know when it comes in. mances of Scelsi, Cage and Feldman, and her wrote this beautiful poem after we had trav- involvement with experimental metal groups elled across southern Nevada and Utah. The – notes by Daniel Schmidt such as Sunn 0))) and ASVA, and one realizes trip was heavenly. My most thrilling evening that challenging horizons mark Kenney’s regu- consisted of rarified light seeping under storm lar pursuits. In 2014, Kenney received the Artist clouds. Hugh drops fell on my outstretched Trust James W Ray Distinguished Artist Award arms as I walked across the open sand. Then for a Washington State artist whose work dem- the clouds were gone, and the milky breath of onstrates exceptional originality, and she and stars bloomed against my skin. Kang were recipients of the 2013 Stranger Ge- nius Award in Music. Presently, Kenney stud- The Edge of Sleep ies radif with Ostad Hossein Omoumi, Persian This piece begins briskly with an irregular language and literature at the University of rhythmic scheme. There are phrases of three Washington, and avidly reads interpretations of measures, then four, then five. That scheme is Classical Sufism. In the spring of 2014 her work repeated through three sections. All sections included collaborations with the Rumi scholar adhere to the irregular plan but differ in their Fatemeh Keshavarz at the Library of Congress, sound. The first version is bright in its orna- Chinese text translator Red Pine, and poet Anne mentation. The second is quick and gentle, Carson. titled Farfalla (butterfly). The music moves on to a duet between low instruments. After these three sections there is a large section, present- ing six verses of magic. Follow the text so you will understand what the singer is speaking of. This is a true experience that my wife turned 5 into this marvelous poem. 2 TEXTS BIOS The Edge of Sleep As Evening Falls GAMELAN PACIFICA has performed extensive- respected non-profit arts organization that sup- ly in the Pacific Northwest, as well as Canada ports various programs and special projects re- when i was very young as evening falls in the high desert and other parts of the U.S., and is among the lating to music and dance, with a special em- as close to dreams as waking comes there is a moment finest ensembles devoted to the performance of phasis on cross-cultural and interdisciplinary there swirled around my bed when the earth breathes in music for gamelan in the U.S. Gamelan Paci- collaboration. Gamelan Pacifica has been the like stars around the earth and in a single wingbeat fica is directed by noted composer and Cornish recipient of numerous grants, including support a globe all pricked with colored lights of the great bird of night College of the Arts Professor JARRAD POWELL. from the National Endowment for the Arts, the the stone-kept heat lifts Originally formed in 1980, Gamelan Pacifica Rockefeller Foundation and Arts International. my room was very dark and the milky breath of stars was among the innovators in developing the Gamelan Pacifica is currently supported in part so very black i barely knew blooms against the skin resources to create and perform gamelan mu- by sustaining funds from the Seattle Office of if my own eyes were closed sic in the U.S. It is an active and adventurous Arts and Culture and 4Culture. or open—either way ensemble, with a reputation for creating diverse i still could see the spinning globe productions merging traditional and contem- DANIEL SCHMIDT is a composer and builder porary musical forms with dance, theater, pup- of American Gamelan. He currently teaches a sphere of dancing lights petry, and visual media. They have been guest Gamelan and instrument building at Mills Col- its wheeling edge so far away performers on The Smithsonian Institute’s Fes- lege. He is also a long-time collaborator with it fell below my feet tival of Indonesia, New Music Across America the Paul Dresher Ensemble. Schmidt has helped and passed beneath the floor Festival, Vancouver New Music Society, On the build many American gamelan, including Si beneath the surface of the earth Boards, Walker Art Center, Performing Arts Chi- Darius/Si Madeleine with the great American cago, and many others. In the Northwest they composer Lou Harrison and his partner Bill then rose above my head perform regularly and have appeared at the Uni- Colvig. He directed a workshop in gamelan now higher than the highest sky versity of Washington, Seattle University, Town building at Cornish College of the Arts that led yet close enough to touch Hall, Benaroya Hall, On the Boards, Cornish to the establishment of the first gamelan there in and i was not afraid College of the Arts, the Seattle Art Museum, Ev- 1979-80. He is currently working on an alumi- but let the turning carry me ergreen State College, Centrum, Bumbershoot num gamelan with the working name of “Gift” Festival, Arts in Nature Festival, University of that is being built in collaboration with students on waves of vertigo Oregon, Whidbey Institute, CenterStage, and at Mills College. Schmidt is one of the foremost (that felt like running down the beach many, many others. Visiting artists have includ- composers of gamelan music among western the dizzy sweep of tide ed some of the most notable artists of Indonesia, composers and his music will be a featured part across my headlong path) including Al. Suwardi, Rahayu Supanggah, Peni of this concert. into the night beyond Chandra Rini, Sutrisno Hartana, Heri Purwanto, (surrendering the day-trod ground Midiyanto, Wayan Sinti, Didik Nini Thowok, Sri STEPHEN PARRIS does work that deals with dif- Djoko Rahardja, I Made Sidia, Endo Suanda, ferent levels of performer focus, interactivity, and all familiar things) Dedek Wahyudi, Goenawan Mohamad, and inclusiveness, playfulness, and improvisation. into the drifting universe Tony Prabowo. Gamelan Pacifica’s CD, Trance In the last few years, he has begun compos- that round me slowly spun Gong has received international acclaim. Their ing for gamelan, pulling from his 15 years of so terrible and vast latest recording Scenes from Cavafy on New experience playing traditional and contempo- yet held me in its womb of star World Records features premiere recordings rary gamelan music with Gamelan Sari Raras, of works by the great American composer Lou Gamelan Sekar Jaya, and Gamelan Pacifica.
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