The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present:
The Mary and Tony Bianco Lecture Series and Artists-In-Residence
MICHAEL PISARO
Lecture
Michael Pisaro is a composer and guitarist, and a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble. He has composed over 80 works for a variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues.
http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/
"Field recording. The great outdoors. Non-music. Atmosphere. Artificial environments. Ecosystem."
Monday, February 11, 2019
7:30 pm
Ensemble Room
Free Admission
Open to Public
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Soundwaves March 2017 Michael Pisaro Performance
https://youtu.be/K1qbhw4cWAU
Michael Pisaro — A mist is a collection of points [w/ score]
https://youtu.be/kyyuwXmtwh0
Michael Pisaro was born in Buffalo in 1961. He is a composer and guitarist, and a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble. He has composed over 80 works for a great variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. A particularly large category of his works is solo works, notably a series of 36 pieces (grouped into 6 longer works) for the three-year, 156-concert series organized by Carlo Inderhees at the Zionskirche in Berlin-Mitte from 1997-1999. Another solo piece, pi (1-2594), was performed in installments by the composer on 15 selected days in February, 1999, in Evanston, Illinois, and in Düsseldorf in 2000-2001.
His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues. It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991) and Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991). He has had extended composer residencies in Germany (Künstlerhof Schreyahn), Switzerland (Forumclaque/Baden), Israel (Miskenot Sha'ananmim), Greece (EarTalk) and in the U.S. (Birch Creek Music Festival/ Wisconsin). Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Vienna, Brussels, Curitiba (Brazil), Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Cologne, Aarau and elsewhere.
Most of his music of the last several years is published by Timescaper Music (Germany). Two CDs of his work have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records. He has performed many of his own works and those of close associates Antoine Beuger, Kunsu Shim, Jürg Frey and Manfred Werder, and works from the experimental tradition, especially John Cage, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley and George Brecht.
He is on the composition faculty at CalArts. He also taught music composition and theory at Northwestern University from 1986 to 2000.
Cost: Free