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Friday, August 15, 2008 7:00 PM
Damrosch Park Bandshell

Lincoln Center Out of Doors - free, no tickets required


Beata Viscera (Debut): The Music of Pérotin (fl. c. 1200)

Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail (2008) for 200 Electric Guitars (Outdoor Version) (World Premiere)
Commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center Out of Doors

Manuel Göttsching: E2-E4 (12.12.81) (U.S. Premiere)
With the Joshua Light Show (World Premiere collaboration)

Presented in collaboration with Wordless Music

This special co-production highlights minimalist music spanning eight centuries of human experience, in a program exploring the transcendental and ecstatic dimension of music-making.

Beata Viscera, an early-music vocal group, opens with a selection of works by the 13th-century French composer Pérotin.

Next, composer Rhys Chatham and section leaders John King, Ned Sublette, David Daniell, and Seth Olinsky (Akron/Family) lead an oversized orchestra of 200 volunteer guitarists and electric bassists in the world premiere of A Crimson Grail for 200 Electric Guitars (Outdoor Version) performed not on the Bandshell stage but along the sides of the audience at Damrosch Park, to heighten the work’s polyphonic effect. The work, originally composed for Paris’ famed Sacré-Coeur, has been extensively revised to suit the dynamics of the Park’s outdoor acoustic.

Concluding the show will be the U.S. premiere of composer and guitarist Manuel Göttsching’s hour-long masterpiece E2-E4, one of the most important, influential electronic records ever released. Collaborating with Göttsching for the first-ever U.S. live performance of E2-E4 will be the Joshua Light Show, led by multimedia artist Joshua White, which will fill the surface of the Damrosch Bandshell with its signature display of psychedelic visual effects.

I wonder if Rhys needs people...

He does actually. I volunteered and I really really hope I get picked. Burun, how did you get picked previously? This one required you to fill out whether you can read music, tab, kind of guitar you have, amp, etc...Check out the post thing here:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/06/200_guitarists.html

GOD DAMMIT this shit never goes down in Atlanta. EVER.

Fuck.

gheorge77 wrote:I will post the link once I can find it again.
-Ian

Please, thanks.

Huh. I don't honestly know much about Rhys Chatham, but oddly enough just a few days ago, on a whim, I ordered up a copy of 'Die Donnergötter' from MusicStack... what can I expect?

die donnergotter is the best thing i've heard from chatham. great stuff.

some of his stuff is pretty questionable though. his metal band that toured a year or two ago was completely terrible -- it was like he tried to jump on a bandwagon, missed it and landed on his face.

bigc wrote:GOD DAMMIT this shit never goes down in Atlanta. EVER.

Fuck.

Rhys has played here a few times the past few years (or maybe it was a few times at one festival - I'm drawing a blank,) but he hasn't done something epic like this here before.

He has very strong Atlanta ties. His label used to be here. Most of the guys in his Essentialist band are Atlantans. Dave Daniell, his right hand man on these guitar army projects, is from here.

gheorge77 wrote:He does actually. I volunteered and I really really hope I get picked. Burun, how did you get picked previously? This one required you to fill out whether you can read music, tab, kind of guitar you have, amp, etc...Check out the post thing here:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/06/200_guitarists.html

Thanks for posting that, because I mailed him directly and got no answer.

I've never played with Rhys, only Glenn.

Oh my bad. Slowriot mentioned you had played one of his things before so I took his word for it...I am just hoping I get picked. Who knows though. I listened to part of the Crimson Grail today and it sounded quite beautiful, and right up my alley stylistically, as I really enjoy playing very spacey stuff, albeit through delay pedals and stuff instead of using 400 guitarists playing at different intervals, but still a similar effect.

Reading the qualifications, WHO THE FUCK has a 50 watt amp?

I mean, really.

I could play this piece in my sleep (if I were dreaming, ha ha) but I only have a itty bitty amp that's like 12 watts. And that was perfectly fine for Glenn.

I'm still going to apply, but it would suck if I got DQ'ed because I don't have room in my apartment/can't carry anything other than a Pro Junior.