4' minutes 33" composers
Performance
"4` minutes 33`` composers" took place for the first time on October 1, 2012 in
Moscow in the Chamber Hall of the Philharmonic. In fact, this event is not far away
dated August 29, 1952 (Woodstock, New York),
when this play by Cage was presented.
At noon, practicing composers will gather on stage, which does not happen often, and will remain so for the interval of Cage’s play.
Those who came
composers will push their own bodies into the space of the hall to
create a tangible presence effect. “Be Where You Are” (J. Cage
"Lecture on Nothingness") Organized silence will arise,
a construction of silence filled with “found (Cage) sounds”:
the breathing of the participants, the rustle of clothes, the creaking of chairs and shoes, the sounds
footsteps and doors, sounds outside. Also to the number of participants will be added
composers from other cities recorded via Skype. Preparatory
the work took place mainly on Facebook, which, together with
composers our socialization with Cage. Composers, as producers of tone-noise concepts, will themselves become Deleuzian machines, sounding bodies.
"Music
- this is the duration of the sound” (J. Cage). Composers will harmonize
time of collective meditation, will become their own performers. Cage
proved after an experiment in an anechoic chamber that there is no soundlessness
exists, and that the body can be used as a noise instrument
(blood circulation, heartbeat). Following the path of Cage, following
with it, destroying the boundaries of tone and noise, we again approach “silence,
which can only be heard in time." Also discovered
silence, especially the silence of composers, is a strong political
gesture Silence as a figure of protest. In a tense and intense
political atmosphere of 2012 in Russia (when the “generation
12th year” according to the political scientist Vl. Pastukhova) -- organized
silence takes on a civil meaning.
The performance took place in
within the framework of a special program for the GAM-Ensemble project (together with
Moscow Philharmonic and NCCA for the festival “John Cage. Silent
presence"). The video documentation premiered on October 3, 2012.