"The Sound as Music"

September 2005

College of Charleston Recital Hall

8pm

Other performances of this program included:

Gibbes Museum of Art 100th Anniversary Celebrations

Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Charleston, SC

As part of the "Redeemer Lives" concert series curated by Tom White

“ New Music: New Listening . Not an attempt to understand something that is being said, for, if something were being said, the sounds would be given the shapes of words. Just an attention to the activity of sound.”

- John Cage

It was with this in mind that we offered this concert, “The Sound as Music.” This installment of our concert series involved the musical nature of sound . Music is always sound (or is it?), so is sound always music? We let the listener decide as we offered up these 5 works of decidedly different sonic textures. Voices, clapping, computers, meditations, and traditional horn trios don’t necessarily have a lot in common. But we say they don’t have to. We say that clapping is as much “music” as is a traditional chamber ensemble, as is a marimba & laptop duet. We invited listeners to come along with us, break down some musical boundaries, and explore the many different ways we can define what music is.

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