8 hours of MP3s recorded live at The Sculpture Center, NYC on June 11, 2006. Vexations was composed by Erik Satie in 1893 and consists of a short motif repeated 840 times. Vexations was first performed publicly by John Cage and several other pianists over the course of 19 hours in 1963. As the title conveys, artists performing in Pianoless Vexations used any instrument except the piano to perform Satie's original composition. Instruments included laptops, drums, guitar, French horn, violin, trumpet, saxophone, viola, recorder, toy piano, harpsichord, mandolin, bass, film projectors, voice, dulcimer and more (more here). More info, photos, etc. on UbuWeb.
MP3s (approx. 20 minutes each): Randy Nordschow (laptop); Jay Sanders (guitar); Bruce Pearson (laptop); Daphna Mor, Rachel Begley, and Nina Stern (recorders); Bruce Arnold Jazz Trio (jazz); Alan Licht and Angela Jaeger (guitar & voice); String Messengers (bluegrass); Rusty Santos (rock); Amy Granat (violin); Greg Kelley (horn); Miguel Frasconi (glass sounds); Bethany Ryker (french horn); D. Edward Davis and Erik Carlson (violin & laptop); Zachary Seldess (laptop); Charles Waters and Katie Pawluk (sax & violin); Andrew Lampert and Steve Dalachinsky (film & voice); Margaret Leng Tan (toy piano); Trudy Chan (detuned harpsichord); David Grubbs (nylon-string guitar); Goddess (dulcimer & vocals); Matthew Ostrowski (laptop); Kenta Nagai (shamisen); Stephin Merritt (marimbas); Rick Moody, Hannah Marcus, and Tianna Kennedy (guitar, cello, violin).
Thucks very much Kenny. Thus far I enjoy the recorder and bluegrass versions the most.
Posted by: A Chair | July 15, 2006 at 06:28 PM
Halfway through. Beautiful. Thanks for posting!
Posted by: poesboes | July 20, 2006 at 08:14 PM
By now i think the contribution by Bethany Ryker and here teacher is the highlight. As the teacher states she doesn't know the piece. I wonder. Here role of 'aggravator' is almost key in this part!
Posted by: poesboes | July 21, 2006 at 05:24 AM