Cecil Taylor: Floating Gardens

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EMPAC @ Rensselaer

In Memoriam: Cecil Taylor
March 25, 1929 - April 5, 2018

During his decades of ever-evolving work in the realms of performance, composition, as a band leader, a soloist, and collaborator, Cecil Taylor has created his own performative language. While his music is widely known, he has for decades been writing astonishing poetry and only occasionally performing it in public.

A three week festival celebrated the opening of the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in October 2008.

On October 5, 2008, Cecil Taylor read his poetry in the new Theater at EMPAC.

opening.empac.rpi.edu/gala/taylor.html

Eric Wubbels' "being time" By Mivos Quartet

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November 14, 2014

The Mivos Quartet, one of the most sought-after string quartets in the international new music scene, will be in residence at EMPAC to develop and perform a new work by American composer Eric Wubbels. Titled being time, the piece is an audio variation on the psychological experience of time. Extending nearly an hour, it moves from sections of extreme slowness and static sustains to high-energy plateaus of dense, saturated sound textures. In the final sequence, quadraphonic electronic sound pushes the performance into an altogether new dimension, creating vivid psychoacoustic illusions by using extremely high sine waves.

Mivos Quartet:
Olivia De Prato, violin
Joshua Modney, violin
Victor Lowrie, viola
Mariel Roberts, cello

CURATOR: ARGEO ASCANI

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2014/fall/mivos-quartet