PERFORMING "PASSAGE" (2009)
This Performing Score is a 37-page publication that explains how an individual, or a group of any size, can create an intermedia PASSAGE event of the same character as those that composer Reynolds has performed numerous times. INTERMEDIA and SERIES OF WORKS
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score Performing PASSAGE]
PASSAGE 1: "Responsibility, Alliances, Collaboration, Realization, Resource, Mastery, Reward, Futures, Chance, Serendipity, Loyalty" (referencing Takahashi and Xenakis, Carter, Arditti, Weisberg, and Takemitsu) (2009)
Intermedia Performance by Roger Reynolds
Performance date: 1 December 2009
Mike Gao, Technical support
204 inFocus Seminar, Experimental Theater
University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California INTERMEDIA and SERIES OF WORKS
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score Performing PASSAGE]
There are no scores but for Performing PASSAGE.
See the INTERMEDIA page for documentation on PASSAGES 1-13
PASSAGE 2: "Benediction, Sharing, Legacy, Public Exposure, Seasons, The Sublime" (referencing Xenakis, Cage, Schick, Poetry, and Barnett Newman) (2010)
Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds
Performance date: 20 May 2010
Autumn Island (Islands from Archipelago:
II) (Solo Marimba), Brian Archinal
Jaime Oliver, Technical Support
Calit2 Black Box Theater, Atkinson Hall
University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California
PASSAGE 3: "Going First Class, Perilous Consideration, Subconscious Craft, Anotherworldly Intersection, Unnatural Experience, The Source of Force, Memorability, Differences" (referencing Feldman, Varèse, Gerhard, Takemitsu, Xenakis, Carter, and Copland) (2010)
Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds Performance date: 3 June 2010
With Irvine Arditti and Lucas Fels
Jaime Oliver, Technical Support
June in Buffalo, 35th Anniversary
Baird Concert Hall, State University at Buffalo – SUNY
PASSAGE 4: "Alliances, Understanding the Context, Benediction, Sharing, Collaboration, Loyalty, Memorability, Mission" (referencing Takahashi and Xenakis, Cage, Takemitsu, Ashley, Mumma, Scavarda, Daugherty, and George Washington) (2010)
Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds Performance date: 3 November 2010
ONCE. MORE. Festival
Rackham Lecture Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PASSAGE 5: "Theories and Experience, Alliances, Responsibility, What Is Needed, Intention, Loyalty, Memorability, The Sublime, Anotherworldly Intersection, Seasons" (referencing Form and Method, Takahashi and Xenakis, Takemitsu, Carter, and Barnett Newman) (2011)
Intermedia Performance
Narrated by
Roger Reynolds Performance date: 11 May 2011
Schoenberg Hall, University of California, Los Angeles
PASSAGE 6: "Theories and Experience, The Source of Force, Collaboration, Alliances, Anotherworldly Intersection, Chance and Determinacy, The Right Amount, What Is Needed, Memorability, Context or Features?, Loyalty, Benediction" (referencing Mind Models, Takahashi and Xenakis, Takemitsu, Cage, Tiensuu, and Kandinsky) (2011)
Intermedia Performance
Narrated by
Roger Reynolds Performance date: 13 July 2011 Toward Another WorldPreliminary version, Bill Kalinkos, Clarinet, Jaime Oliver, Real-time algorithmic transformation
Jaime Oliver, Technical assistance
MIZZOU New Music Summer Festival
Whitmore Recital Hall, University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri
ILLUMINATIONs 5, Intermedia Lecture Event, John Cage Centennial Festival Washington, DC
Intermedia Performance PASSAGE 7
Narrated by Roger Reynolds Performance date: 9 September 2012
Jenny Lin, Guest Pianist, SEASONS (excerpts), Quest (complete), and ONE (complete)
Jaime Oliver, Technical assistance
National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium
Washington, DC
Abstract
One in a series of intermedia creations by Roger Reynolds, this centers on a poetic American: John Cage as composer, writer, philosopher, visual artist, and performer. The presentation offers a personalized perspective on (and around) Cage and his work. Subjects for Reynolds’s texts include ENCOUNTERS (his first meeting with Cage), CHANCE AND INDETERMINACY (as manifested in life), SHARING (meals), THE SPACE OF SILENCE (doing an interview with Cage), CONTEXT OR FEATURES (an exploration of how musical experiences mean), and CHAGRIN (a detailed discussion of an interaction with Cage involving his “Themes and Variations” text). Also included are recorded passages from a conversation between Cage and Reynolds at the University of Toronto (on Duchamp, cooking, Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras, and Cage’s view of his work), as well as some of the Indeterminacy stories as recorded by Cage. The texts are spatialized, both live and recorded readings, and are interpenetrated by projected images and also performances by pianist Jenny Lin of Cage’s SEASONS (excerpts), Quest (complete), and ONE (complete), the first of the late number pieces.
PASSAGE 8: "On Learning, Varèse, Cage, Ashley, Musical Experience, and Intermedia" (2012)
Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds Performance date: 6 December 2012
Paul Hembree, Technical support imagE/viola, John Pickford Richards, Viola Toward Another WorldPreliminary version, Bill Kalinkos, Clarinet, Paul Hembree, Real-Time algorithmic transformation
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall
Harvard University, Cambridge
PASSAGE 9: "Alliances, Realization, Benediction, The Sublime, The Space of Silence,
Sharing, The Inexplicable, Anotherworldly Intersection, What Was Needed, Context or Features, Cross-Modality, Obligation: A Meander" (2012-2013)
Intermedia Performance
Texts and Narration: Roger Reynolds
Image preparation: Paul Hembree
Recording and editing of texts: Paul Hembree
On screen: [Tadashi Suzuki’s production of Chekhov’s Ivanov (NHK recorded excerpt), Music by Roger Reynolds],
[MARKed MUSIC (excerpt) performed by Mark Dresser (Contrabass) and
Paul Hembree (real-time algorithmic sound processing)
Audio recording and editing:
Michael Ricca
Editing: Ross Karre, Kyle Johnson, and Frankie Martin]
Performance date: 13 March 2013 Chatter/Clatter, Steven Schick (Percussion) and Paul Hembree (Computer Musician) imagE/flute, Rachel Beetz, Flute
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, Conrad Prebys Music Center
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California
Passage 10: "Musings on “Good Lives”: Relationships, Sustenance, Aspirations –
Truth, Secrets, Boundaries, Purpose, Flight" (2013-2014) 58'53"
Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds
Montaged words of Reynolds, Lucretius, John Ashbery, Milan Kundera, Richard Wilbur, Emily Dickinson, Roberto Bolaño
Paul
Hembree, Technical support, image preparation, text recording, spatialization
"In this series, eight of UC San Diego's finest teachers and scholars share their pursuit of 'The Good Life'.
Performance date: 3 March 2014
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
Conrad Prebys Music Center
University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California
UCSD-TV COMPLETE VIDEO of PASSAGE 10 by Roger Reynolds
PASSAGE 11: "Collaboration, Cage, Takemitsu, Xenakis, the Sublime, and Obligation" (2016)
Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds Performance date: 3 August 2016
Johannes Regnier and Paul Hembree, Technical support
With the Arditti String Quartet (performing three movements from not forgotten, and
Irvine Arditti performing the 3rd cadenza from Aspiration)
Darmstadt, Germany, 70th Anniversary Celebration
PASSAGE 12: ALLIANCES, SHARING, UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT, ANOTHERWORLDLY INTERSECTION, BENEDICTION, THE SPACE OF SILENCE, CONTEXT OR FEATURES?"
(concerning Xenakis, Takahashi, Takemitsu, Arditti, Cage, Czernowin. and Tiensuu) (2023)
Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds Performance date: 17 April 2023
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
April in Santa Cruz Festival
Department of Music, UC Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
PASSAGE 13: “Alliances, Unawares, Sharing, Understanding the Context, Benediction, The Source of Force, The Sublime, Futures, Anotherworldly Intersection, What was Needed, Resolute, Obligation: A Meander, Elevated Purpose, Considering a Capitol, Context or Features?” (referencing Takemitsu, Czernowin, Cage, Xenakis, Tiensuu, and Ligeti) (2024)
Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds Performance date: 10 March 2024
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
Roger Reynolds, Narrator
Meyer/Pearson Theatre, 15:00-16:50
CNMAT
University of California Berkeley
