Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College at Northeastern University, Oakland
Richards Rd, Oakland, CA

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Other Minds holds certain truths to be self-evident—what better way to celebrate the American semiquincentennial than with summer concerts featuring Maverick American Composers from distinct eras of musical history? For the first concert of Mavericks 250, Other Minds welcomes Composers Inside Electronics to perform works by David Tudor (1926–1996) in celebration of his centennial, as well as Composer Inside Electronics 50th Anniversary. This event takes place over two evening concerts, as well as an afternoon discussion/demonstration of some of the techniques behind Tudor’s experiments with electronics.

David Tudor is, perhaps, most famously known as part and principal interpreter of the New York School—John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff. With Cage, in the early 1960s, Tudor also began to pioneer the use of live electronics in performance, as opposed to exclusively on recordings. To further this practice, Tudor formed Composers Inside Electronics 1973, whose original core members, along with Tudor, were John Driscoll, Paul DeMarinis, Phil Edelstein, Linda Fisher, Ralph Jones, Martin Kalve, and Bill Viola. Their first work was a collaboratively realized “electroacoustic environment” conceived by Tudor: Rainforest IV. This first version of the group was active between 1976 and 1981. Reformed in 1996 for Tudor’s memorial service, current members include John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Tom Hamilton, Matt Rogalsky, and Doug Van Nort.

Cost: $0-60