NuMusWes24: Day II

Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 8:00am – Various locations on the Wesleyan campus

The second day of NuMusWes24 will feature an elaborated reconstruction of the February 1974 concert “An Evening with John Cage” in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts including members of the Wesleyan University Orchestra, a simultaneous teleconcert with audience participation between Middletown and Germany, three installations, and four symposium panels.

Installations
Saturday, May 11, 2024 from 8am to midnight
Various locartions around the Wesleyan campus

Three installations will include the radio play Saturn and Jupiter (2003) by Brent Wetters MA ’03 in Ring Family Performing Arts Hall located at 287 Washington Terrace, For Alvin Lucier (for automated pipe organ) by Brian Parks MA ’09, MA ’13 in Memorial Chapel located at 221 High Street, and Deer Tick: Solar Sounders on the Lawn (2017) by Daniel Fishkin MA ’15 in the Digital Design Commons gardens located at 301 High Street, which features synthesizers played by sunlight (until sunset).

Symposium: Panel I
Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 10am
Frank Center for Public Affairs, Room 100, 238 Church Street

Featuring presentations by Dan Wolf MA ’90, PhD ’90 “This Talk Might Be Called The Structural Dynamics of Flow,”  and Aaron Siegel MA ’05 “What is a Community of Ideas?”

Symposium: Panel II
Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 11:15am
Frank Center for Public Affairs, Room 100, 238 Church Street

Featuring presentations by Phillip Schulze MA ’08 “Not Tommy’s playground,” and Brian Parks MA ’09, MA ’13 “Humor as Experimental Fuel and Exhaust.”

Concert III: Teleconcert from the University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 1pm
Frank Center for Public Affairs, Room 100, 238 Church Street

Performed simulaneously by audience members posessing smartphones at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany featuring the works Signals by Mladen Milicevic MA ’88, Neural Labyrinths by Alberto DeCampo, Duo Performance by Liz Albee and Anne Wellmer MA ’03, Solo Performance by Rees Archibald MA ’02, and the video documentary “Maryanne Amacher at Wesleyan 2003” by Anne Wellmer MA ’03.

Symposium: Panel III
Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 2:15pm
Frank Center for Public Affairs, Room 100, 238 Church Street

Featuring presentations by Ann Warde MA ’85 “Anne Modugno, George Cacioppo, Alvin Lucier, and John Cage Instructors,” and Nic Collins ’76, MA ’79 “I was right for all the wrong reasons.”

Symposium: Panel IV
Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 3:30pm
Frank Center for Public Affairs, Room 100, 238 Church Street

Featuring presentations by Judy Dunaway MA ’00 “Mother** of Balloon Music,” and Cristohper Ramos Flores MA ’14 “An empirical approach to estimate an optimal mounting location of transducers on active string instruments.”

Environmental Performance
Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 5pm
Andrus Field and Daniel Family Commons Balcony, Usdan University Center, Third Floor, 45 Wyllys Avenue

Concert IV: February 1974
Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 7pm
Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys Avenue

An elaborated reconstruction of “An Evening with John Cage,” a concert celebrating the opening of the Center for the Arts, featuring Cage’s Etcetera (for orchestra) performed by members of the Wesleyan University Orchestra, together with Matt Bauder MA ’03, Tom Crean MA ’04, Daniel Fishkin MA ’15, Omar Fraire MA ’17, Heather Dea Jennings MA ’97, Chia-Yu Joy Lu PhD ’21, Andre Marquetti MA ’09, Alec McLane, Matt Rogalsky MA ’95, David Scanlon MA ’18, Anne Warde MA ’85, and graduate music student Eva Yang.

Cage’s Empty Words will be spoken/sung by Stuart Wheeler MA ’21 starting at 8:02pm in World Music Hall, located at 40 Wyllys Avenue. Empty Words will run until Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 7:32am.

The reading of “Lecture I” from Cage’s Empty Words in World Music Hall will be accompanied by transformations of the time brackets of Cage’s Four(6) prepared by Professor and Chair of the Music Department Ron Kuivila ’77 and realized by Visiting Scholar in Music Arshia Rahmati, Shawn O’Sullivan, and graduate music students Nat Baldwin, Lea Bertucci, Emma Mistele, and Negar Soleymanifar from 8:02pm to 10:32pm.

Syntactical Ghost Trance Music No. 254 by John Spencer Camp Professor of Music Emeritus Anthony Braxton will be perfomed in Crowell Concert Hall starting at 10:40pm. The work will be conducted by Nick Hallett, and performed by graduate music students Nat Baldwin and Hansini Bhasker, Matt BauderMA ’03, Tom Crean MA ’04, Omar Fraire MA ’17, Heather Dea Jennings MA ’97, and David Scanlon MA ’18.

The reading of “Lecture II” from Cage’s Empty Words in World Music Hall will be accompanired by realizations of the work Chambers by the late John Spencer Camp Professor of Music Emeritus Alvin Lucier (1931–2021) from 11:02pm to 1:32am.

The concert will continue in World Music Hall and adjoining grounds on Sunday, May 12, 2024 starting at 1:35am with the work Vespers by Lucier.