Wayward Music Series: Neal Kosaly-Meyer's 'Gradus…'
$5-$15 donation
Neal Kosaly-Meyer, piano
Neal Kosaly-Meyer – Gradus for Fux, Tesla, and Milo the Wrestler (Three Rungs)
Gradus for Fux, Tesla, and Milo the Wrestler (Three Rungs) is a piano composition in perpetual progress. The score in a nutshell is: “learn to play the piano one note at a time.” Since 2002, that is more or less what Neal Kosaly-Meyer has been doing – first working through all the A's and all combinations of all the A's, devoting a lengthy improvisation session to each A and to each combination. Since completing combinations of the A's, E's, C#'s, G's, and B's have been added to the mix.
In performance, a two hour time-frame is divided into sections of 60′, 40′ and 20′, and each section is assigned either a single pitch, a pair of pitches, or a set of three or more pitches – currently selected from the total set of all the As, Es, C#s, Gs and Bs (37 pitches total). Silence is also an extremely important element in Gradus and is considered in the Cagean sense: all the unintended environmental sounds which occur in the course of the performance. Assuming nice weather, the windows will be open to let in more of that kind of silence.
About Wayward Music Series
Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present 10 concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center: contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.
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