Video scores in three parts adapted from the First Interlude for Prepared Piano, a composition by John Cage 1946-1948. Performed by the nipaluna Experimental Music Ensemble at the Hedberg Conservatorium in 2021. Created, conducted and instructed by Georgia Lucy.
Part I – Prepared Piano
Listening to Cage’s First Interlude whilst cleaning the Burnett Street keys. What’s the score?
A score for 3.
A violin plays improvisation to the traffic entering shot from the left.
An oboe plays improvisation to the traffic entering shot from the right.
Meanwhile an orchestral member cleans the grand piano with a spray and rag.
Part II – Metro Gnome
A Cage Dance Cadence; A Challenge. The first interlude gets Gaussian. So… the Metro Gnome counts one, two whilst EME cycles nine syllables. When do they resolve? Is Metro on time today? Can the real spring shady please stand up?
Yellow Daffodils and Wattle Yeah!
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Part III – Lyre Birding
Phones on in the recital hall. Headphones in the phones on the talented heads. We all press play.
Approaching like a lyre bird, EME honestly mimic the mp3 with their mouths.
Georgia Lucy 