60th Anniversary Concert Season
Ghosts in the Machine: A Celebration of David Tudor’s 100th Year
Sunday, March 8 | 3 p.m.
Convocation Hall
Arts Building and Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, North Campus
Marking the centenary of David Tudor’s birth, this concert celebrates one of the most radical and influential figures of postwar experimental music through a multifaceted evening of sound, dance, performance, and reflection. Featuring a realization of Rainforest IV, a program of piano works written for Tudor and performed by Roger Admiral, a contextual talk by Tudor scholar You Nakai, and a dance performance choreographed by Jen Mesch set to Tudor’s Toneburst, the program illuminates Tudor’s enduring legacy as a composer, pianist, and architect of handmade electronic noise instruments—revealing a body of work that continues to challenge how we listen, perform, and inhabit sound.
Featuring:
Rainforest IV performance by Steph Patsula, Scott Smallwood, Dylan Brenneis, and student members of XiMe and ART 354/454 Sound Art Studio
Piano performances by Roger Admiral, featuring:
- Klavierstucke I-IV (1954) - Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
- 4 Systems (1954) - Earle Brown (1926-2002)
- Piano Piece 1952 (1952) - Morton Feldman (1926-1987)
- 1, 3, and 4, from Five piano pieces for David Tudor (1959) - Sylvano Bussotti (1931-2021)
- Solo for Piano, from Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957-58) - (John Cage (1912-1992)
Talk by You Nakai
Tudordance, a dance performance by the Jen Mesch Dance Conspiracy featuring Jen Mesch, Aimee Rushton, Nancy Sandercock, Katrina Smy and Yuliia Tvorilova. Music: Untitled 1975/1996 by David Tudor, performed by Stephan Moore.
Ghosts in the Machine: A Celebration of David Tudor’s 100th Year is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
With additional support from the Sound Studies Institute and the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta.
