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Entries from August 2012

A Concert with Helen Dannenberg at Mills College

August 9th, 2012 · Comments Off on A Concert with Helen Dannenberg at Mills College

I designed this flyer and program for a concert with dancer/choreographer Helen Dannenberg, at Mills College in 1979.

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Tags: *Stage · C

The Bigot

August 7th, 2012 · Comments Off on The Bigot

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Tags: *Music · B

A Duet with Kyle Gann

August 6th, 2012 · Comments Off on A Duet with Kyle Gann

I recommend Kyle Gann’s book No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33”: a thorough and entertaining look at that provocative piece.  I was happy to see that Kyle mentioned the performance he and I did of Cage’s Experiences No. 1, long ago when we were fellow composition students at Oberlin Conservatory.

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Tags: *Music · D

Paperweight

August 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off on Paperweight

An asemic sound poem, from around 1977.

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Tags: *Words · P

Open

August 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off on Open

From the sketchbook…

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Tags: *Sketchbook · O

Seventy-Seven Imperatives for an Enormous Crowd

August 1st, 2012 · Comments Off on Seventy-Seven Imperatives for an Enormous Crowd

I sometimes read this asemic list poem out in San Francisco, back in the ’70s.      

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Tags: *Words · S