FLUXUS @ NOON TO MIDNIGHT
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Interpretations of four Fluxus pieces for the closing day of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's extraordinary Fluxus season in the Noon to Midnight program in collaboration with Chris Rountree and Kate Nordstrum, with designs from Chu-Hsuan Chang, Nina Caussa, Kate Fry and Jackie Zhou.
If You Will Forgive Me
John Cage’s Water Walk: Repetitions and Resets
In February 1960, John Cage performed Water Walk on the celebrity guessing-game show I’ve Got a Secret with an obstacle course of objects from a bathtub to a Campari soda. Cage’s TV appearance, which is recreated and gradually abstracted here, offers an opportunity to examine the nature of rehearsals, retakes, apologies and second chances.
Concept and direction: Annie Saunders
Performed by Christopher Rountree with Mark Skeens, Elvy Yost, and Alexander Demers.
'I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.' - David Tudor
La Monte Young: Piano Piece for David Tudor No. 2
Young’s Piano Piece for David Tudor No. 2 asks the performer: what if even approaching your instrument to begin the work; what if that too is music? What if that alone is music?
Pianists and Non-Pianists: Jacqueline Zhou, Madeline Barasch, Alexander Demers, Mark Skeens, Elvy Yost, Joanne Pearce Martin
'I don’t believe in manifestos. What I try to do is open people’s minds, ears, and eyes with surprises and unexpected things so they become more aware and sensitive to the world around them.' - Benjamin Patterson
Benjamin Patterson: Composition for Any Situation
Direction: Christopher Rountree and Annie Saunders
Composition for Any Situation was led by a team of artist / guides: Odeya Nini, Tomas Peire, Mia Doi Todd, Shruti Kumar, Cobaine Ivory
Allow a butterfly, or any number of butterflies.
An unlimited amount of time is not available.
The composition may be considered finished.
Composition 201960 #5: Improvisation, Meaningless Work, Natural Disasters
In response to La Monte Young Composition 1960 #5
Concept and Direction: Annie Saunders
La Monte Young’s Composition 1960 #5 appeared in An Anthology, edited by Young, a publication he described as “chance operations, concept art, anti-art, indeterminacy, improvisation, meaningless work,” and “natural disasters.” This response to Young's original piece includes a sound installation and durational physical theatre performance examining our simultaneously worshipful and destructive relationship to nature, and in particular with butterflies, which are increasingly endangered and associated symbolically in many cultures with life, the soul, transformation, endurance, change, hope, and transition (fluxus).
Performers: Elvy Yost, Madeline Barasch, Alexander Demers, Mark Skeens, Jacqueline Zhou (also sound design)
Special thanks to movement director Jess Williams for work on this piece.
Videography by Sara Nesson, editing Annie Saunders, Sara Nesson and Dan Carr
Cover image by Kestrel Leah Photography
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