Essential Repertoire: John Cage & Lejaren Hiller, HPSCHD

TWO PERFORMANCES:
Friday, May 3: 5-10pm
Saturday, May 4: 1-6pm
$15 general admission / $12 students and ISSUE members

HPSCHD, John Cage’s legendary Gesamtkunstwerk is a mass media orgy, considered by many as the wildest, largest, and loudest musical composition of the 20th century, its very nature inextricable from the tumult of the year it premiered, 1969. ISSUE Project Room presents this spectacle on May 3rd and 4th in collaboration with Electronic Music Foundation and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, as part of the 2013 Darmstadt Essential Repertoire series, with additional support from NYU-Poly. This new production features composer Joel Chadabe, who has directed performances of HPSCHD throughout the world, as artistic advisor. Keyboardist Neely Bruce, who performed at the 1969 premiere, plays in the harpsichord ensemble. Artist Bradley Eros directs the interpretation of the visual score, and curates projections from an extensive body of film and video artists.

Performances take place at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center on Friday, May 3 from 5pm to 10pm and on Saturday, May 4 from 1pm until 6pm. The audience is invited to arrive and leave at any time during the performance, and Kayrock will be Tshirt screenprinting based on the original HPSCHD design by Gary Viskupic (1969). Refreshments courtesy of Cloud Coffee.

Harpsichordists: Neely Bruce, Joseph Kubera, Karl Larson, Emily Manzo

Electronics: Greg Davis, Ben Vida

VIsualists: Lea Bertucci, Elle Burchill & Andrea Monti, Maria Chavez, Chika, Lili Chin, Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, Kenny Curwood, Zac Dempster & Wendell Seitz, Thomas Dexter & Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Luke Dubois, Bradley Eros, Lorenzo Gattorna, Tim Geraghty, Stephanie Gray, Rachael Guma, Sarah Halpern, Genevieve Havemeyer-King, Jay Hudson, Victoria Keddie & Scott Kiernan, Andrew Lampert, Zach Layton, Josh Lewis, Katherine Liberovskaya, Shona Masarin, Brock Monroe, Mike Olshan, Rachelle Rahme, Ursula Scherrer, Joel Schlemowitz, Lary Seven, Jessie Stead, Richard Sylvarnes, Keiko Uenishi, Matt Wellins, Joshua White & Briged Smith, Tim White, Dan Winckler, Stephanie Wuertz, Erik Z (Lineup subject to change).

Sound Design: Daniel Neumann

Installation Design: Brock Monroe and Joshua White (Joshua Light Show)

For more information: http://www.eyebeam.org/events/essential-repertoire-john-cage-lejaren-hiller-hpschd

http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/event/john-cage-lejaren-hiller-hpschd

Everything you wanted to know about HPSCHD but was afraid to ask: http://johncagehpschd.tumblr.com/

Pre-order your HPSCHD Dragonslayer T-shirt by Kayrock here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/78806356/hpschd-dragonslayer-tee-by-kayrock-screenprinting