DiScORDER ¥A guide to CITR tm 102 & CABLE 100 Vol, 1 No. 9 OCTOBER 1983 DiScORDER ^A guide to CITR fm 102 *-* CABLE 100 Open Your Ears and Change Your Sight "New Music": contempo­ description does no justice to Saturday, October 15, 8:00 ponents of new music for their rary composition growing composers whose works mu­ p.m. Recital Hall, UBC. instruments. The program will from serious music art tradi­ sicians and scholars can study Frances-Marie Uitti performs be made up of works by tions, West or East. That is for a lifetime. avant-garde pieces for cello. Takemitsu, Komorous, Vivi- how I define it. Recently, Since their time many Composers featured include: er's Zipangu, and the world everybody who claims to be or events have occurred. Things John Cage, Louis Andriessen, premiere of Altamira, com­ do anything in sound now also changed. Music, like painting, herself, Ottawa resident Pat­ missioned from John Burke. claims the epithet. Constant theatre, and other arts, rick Cardy, and Brian Ferney- Sunday, April 8, 8:00 p.m. usage by all and sundry has changed with the times. Un­ hough's Time and Motion Vancouver East Cultural blurred any definition. But not fortunately, the aesthetics of Study II, a technically de­ Centre. A concert to celeb­ for me. Hackles fly. Someone composers became separated manding work written for her. rate the twenty-fifth anniver­ prepares to brain me with a from the expectations of most Tuesday, November 1, 8:00 sary of the Canadian Music drum machine. Carefully concertgoers in the 1930's. On p.m. Recital Hall, UBC Centre. All-Canadian, it will made up eyes role coiffure- the whole, since World War II Schoenberg Ensemble, a include Etudes for Piano by ward in disgust. Exclusionist serious (but not humorless) famed chamber group from John Beckwith and a new ideals! music composers have be­ the Netherlands play fascina­ piece of from John Rea. Hold on a moment. The new come less immediately com­ ting transcriptions of music by As well, there will be a music scene has been and prehensible. The brevity of Debussy, Max Reigger, Bu- series of Spring Concerts not remains the cutting edge for my article forces me to make soni, and Zemlinsky among yet finalized. Something else sonic experiments. I'll wager this gross generalization to others. many of us are looking for­ not many electro-synth or­ summarize a complex period. Sunday, November 13, 8:00 ward to: in May Laurie ganizations have lasted Electronics, spawning revolu­ p.m. Vancouver East Cultural Anderson will give one per­ through, let alone digested, a tionary notations, have Centre. New York formance of United States, performance of contemporary changed the way music can experimentalist composer Al- Parts 1-4. Her last time in music from the sources I look. vin Lucier performs works still Vancouver, brought in by describe. For that matter, not We live in a unique era. At being debated, perhaps VNMS, was great! Last year many other people take the no other time has there been Moving Lines of Silence. she received raves in Europe. time or energy either. You such a widespread denial of Sundays, November 20, 27, She is worth seeing! The exact should. Its important to know contemporary work. For ex­ December 4, 2:30 p.m. Mu­ date has not been worked out. about the world we live in. ample, in Mozart's time if a seum of Anthropology, UBC. Watch for it! Musically, most of us still piece was written more than a Special World Music Series Beyond the VNMS, another hanker after a harmonic lan­ year before, or in another featuring cantor Murray venue to keep an eye and ear guage that was surpassed in country, audiences were not Nixon for historical Synago­ on is the Western Front the first decade of this cen­ interested. Today in Canada, gue chant, the Vancouver Lodge. Performers local, na­ tury. Those who made the how many are familiar with Koto Ensemble, and Davinder tional, and international ap­ change were the great com­ the output of Barbara Pent- Hundel, classical East Indian pear frequently, at irregular posers of that time: Debussy, land or Claude Vivier? With violinist, respectively. intervals. Don't be afraid to Stravinsky, Bartok, Schoen- society unsettled by various Sunday, January 29, 8:00 call them. berg, and Varese. These are factors, most people seek art p.m. Vancouver East Cultural All university music depart­ the key names in shaping this that comforts and lulls. Re­ Centre. Challenging Dutch ments in the city (U.B.C, century's so-called "serious" membering that, notice the composer Louis Andriessen S.F.U., V.C.C.) have concerts music. If you listen through nostalgia for the surety of appears with local musicians of recent works, including their art, you will hear certain classical tonality and easily in a performance of his works student and faculty composi­ elements along with incre­ defined measures in most Hoketus, and // Duce. tions. These are spaced dible craftsmanship. First, the popular music. Meanwhile, Sunday, February 12, 8:00 throughout the school year. breakaway from harmonic art that studies and reflects on p.m. Vancouver East Cultural Starting with the University structures and tonal centres; contemporary realities and Centre Annual Evening of of- British Columbia out here second, the introduction of truths continues to flow from Electronics focuses this year at Point Grey, the music polytonality and polyrhythms; various sources. An illustra­ on West Coast composers, department tends to produce third, the influence, not imi­ tive comparison in theatre some of the finest in this field. "conservative" new music. tation, of ethnic music; fourth, could be made between play­ combined, making a perfor­ These will be Barry Truax, For those unfamiliar, do not the development of serial wrights Neil Simon and mance more important than a Jean Piche, Hildergard Wes- be misled. That means they music, using all twelve notes Samuel Beckett. The impres­ recording. Also important now terkamp, John Celona, and hark back, at times all the way of our octave equally; fifth, sions left in an audience are are innovations offered Martin Bartlett. to the 1950's. Us laypersons the abandonment of notes for very different. So too are the through mathematics, chance Wednesday, February 29, will still find much challenge tones and sonorities. (Each techniques used to leave that operations, and magnetic 8:00 p.m. Ryerson United and interest there. Every characteristic sums up the imprint. Yet, both write tape. Church. CBC Vancouver week is filled with concerts, corresponding composer's in­ comedies of a sort. Its the If you've followed me so far, Chamber Orchestra with solo­ but for new music alone watch novation.) As you can no same with music. In fact, prepare to experience the real ists Robert Aitken and Erica for the Contemporary Players. doubt guess, a ten word staging and music are often thing. The possibilities! New Goodman, both leading ex­ music concerts are put on at CONTINUED PAGE 2 various places in Vancouver by different groups. The Vancouver New Music Society is the cornerstone of public, non-academic new music concerts. Now in it's twelfth season, each year the VNMS presents a series of recitals featuring performer, solo or ensemble, and com­ poser. The Society is run by Paul Grant, musician turned co-ordinator, with help from members of academic, musi­ cal, and business communi­ ties. This year offers great value to subscribers. Inclu­ ding the first concert in Sep­ tember, a seasons ticket cost­ ing $40 general and $27 for students pays for 14 concerts. Dada: Marcel Duchamp's haircut - 1927! Even their occasional drinks Laurie Anderson shows her sine language. are cheap! pagel Please accept my apologies for the error and spare me that WORDS FROM THE AIRHEAD terrible Airhead wrath." {HlfcDiSfcOBDEft Space ... the final frontier. symbolic; blow your nose in a fffllOS Cable 100 These are the voyages of the piece of paper and send it in That took real guts, Fifi. EDITOR: Starship Airhead. My five (might be tough to print, But Rumors from various CONTRIBUTORS: sources have The Cramps, Michael Shea Paris Simons year mission. To explore I'll think of something). The strange new drugs. To seek address is, once again: Gang of Four, Violent REVIEWS: Mike Dennis Femmes, and perhaps Jona­ Chris Dafoe Fiona MacKay out new ways of spending AIRHEAD other peoples money. 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