[Local events] Reminder: Sat 5/20: Works on Paper: Maledetto

[David Abel]

/Works on Paper: <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>Experiments in 
Language and Sound <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>/

/presents/

*EVERGREEN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC ENSEMBLE
    in a performance of

/MALEDETTO/
    by KENNETH GABURO

Saturday**, May 20*

*7:30 pm (doors open at 7:00)
No late entry
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///*$10-20*//suggested donation; no one turned away/

*Passages Bookshop* <https://www.passagesbookshop.com>
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
503-388-7665

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*Works on Paper is excited to present the Evergreen Experimental Music 
Ensemble in Kenneth Gaburo's linguistic-musical tour de force 
**/Maledetto/**.*

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Kenneth Gaburo's /Maledetto/, a landmark work of experimental music from 
the composer's LINGUA project, exemplifies Gaburo's practice of 
Compositional Linguistics (i.e., language as music, and music as 
language). Arun Chandra, who has led multiple performances of the work 
over the years and serves as musical director for the Evergreen 
Experimental Music Ensemble, provides the following analysis:

/Maledetto: for Seven Virtuoso Voices/ by Kenneth Gaburo (1926-1993) is 
a 1-hour "opera" for seven individual voices that interact with one 
another in quartets, quintets, duos, solos, and trios — in brief, it is 
an orgy for voices, which delivers a deep resistance to rationality 
while proposing a path to a different way of speaking.

The word "screw" is taken for a ride, with all its potential meanings 
and (powerful) subtleties. The tongues of the seven performers lick you 
through sound. The rationality of speech is delivered through the 
sensuality of sounds, and sounds carry with them the irrational 
rationality of meaning.

At all moments, the listener is assaulted by either the words or the 
phonemes — the decision is left up to the listener which one to follow 
now. Gaburo has created an acoustic ocean, in which meaning and phonemes 
rub against one another, leading to a climax that promises — something 
else. Something away from the insistence of the rational or the 
seduction of the sensual. No promises are given, but a door is pointed at.

Thus, /Maledetto/ is a composition, a work of art, positing a path to 
the still not yet realized.
-- Arun Chandra, Musical Director, Evergreen Experimental Music Ensemble

Performers:
Speaker A: Ben Michaelis
Speaker B: Ben Kapp
Speaker C: Shannon Kerrigan, Allen Burgess, Arun Chandra, Callum McKean
Speaker D: Emma Jones

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*Works on Paper <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org> *supports 
activities that use concepts, characteristics, and histories of the 
book, and entanglements with text, as a frame for exploratory practice 
across the arts. The spring 2023 series, /Experiments in Language and 
Sound/, was curated by Robert Blatt and David Abel. For more 
information, please visit the Works on Paper site 
<https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>.

The Works on Paper series is funded in part by the Regional Arts & 
Culture Council.


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*Upcoming at Passages Bookshop:*/

Fri 5/26   Works on Paper: Nico Vassilakis & mARKO WHENs
Sun 5/28   Spare Room reading series: Maryrose Larkin & Sam Lohmann
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