Open Form. An Expanded Performer´s Role.

Else Olsen Storesund

Open form is a designation on a type of composition that is in some degree open. It is also a term in relation to understanding a genre. This means that I do not include for example Bach´s Die Kunst der Fuge (circa 1740), but Stockhausen´s Aus den sieben Tagen (1968) could be included. This project, however, is centered around the composers from The New York Scool, and composers related to The New York School: Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman and Cornelius Cardew. An Open form composition is graphic, text- or number-based. It may also be a combination of these three notational techniques and/or in combination with conventional staff line-notation.

Library Concert

12th of November 2014

Open form – Library concert

This was the 3RD of the concerts held during Open

Form – an Elastic Festival.

4 concerts and 4 seminars and workshops were held in the festival. The last concert, ConcertCircus, was held at Borealis 15th of March 2015, with Christian Wolff and orchestra, which was also the final concert of this project.

kl. 18.30 – seminar with Else Olsen S.

kl. 19:00 – concert

Program:

Else Olsen S: Lotto S.E.L (2010)

Cornelius Cardew: Excrepts from Schooltime compositions (1967)

John Cage: Four6 (1992)
John Cage: ONE 7 (1992)

Performers:

Mia Göran, flute, paper

Øyvind Skarbø, percussion

Else Olsen S., prepared piano, toys

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