The Extradition Series 2018 Fall Concert will take place on Saturday, October 20, 2018, featuring five intimate works of 20th- and 21st-century experimental music, performed by a cast of outstanding regional musicians.

> Cornelius Cardew, “The Tiger’s Mind (Nightpiece)” (1967): Originally written to be performed by the ensemble AMM, “The Tiger’s Mind (Nightpiece)” takes the form of a one-paragraph drama. Musicians play the roles of six characters: The Tiger, Amy, The Tree, The Wind, The Mind, and The Circle. Musical interactions are based on actions and hints in the text and in an accompanying guidance document that discusses the characters’ personality traits. The piece will be performed by Brandon Conway (guitar), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Lorna Krier (piano), Catherine Lee (oboe d’amore), John C. Savage (flute), and Shao Way Wu (double bass).

> Jürg Frey, “Un Champ de Tendresse Parseme d’Adieux (4)” (2011): In this piece, performers drop dry leaves and tiny pebbles onto a sounding floor, their actions following a canon form and notations indicating density and choice of object. Later in the piece, wind-like, whistled glissandi fill out the mood of the title, which translates as “A field of tenderness strewn with farewells.” It will be performed by Matthew Neil Andrews, Loren Chasse, Matt Hannafin, Branic Howard, Juniana Lanning, and Melanie Voytovich (dry leaves, pebbles, whistling).

> Ryoko Akama, “Tada No” (2013/14): This series of 18 miniature text and graphic scores was originally written in “hidden” places (on leaves, rock walls, tree branches, flower pots, etc.) in and around Huddersfield, a large market town in West Yorkshire, England. Designed to be discovered and performed by passersby, each comprises a single, simple sound action, such as “Look up at clouds and sing ‘Ahh.’” The scores will be performed by Barbara Ford, Gina James, Margaret McNeal, Bonnie Singer, Stephanie Lavon Trotter, and Marion Van Namen (voices).

> Daniel Brandes, “Other Echoes Inhabit the Garden” (2013): A tenor saxophonist, “searching in the tenuous space between sounding and non-sounding,” plays a set of phrases created by the composer, each hovering between melody and single tones. The player’s sound, captured by a microphone, opens and closes an audio gate, behind which is a recording of a poet slowly writing and reciting a poem, word by word. When the saxophonist plays, the poetry is revealed; when he does not, it is not. The piece will be performed by John C. Savage (tenor sax) and Claudia F. Savage (recorded poetry).

> G. Douglas Barrett, “A Few Silence” (2008): “A Few Silence” is a work in which the site of performance becomes the subject of its own documentation. For the first five minutes, players create their own personal scores by listening to the room and writing short descriptions of each ambient sound they hear, along with the time it occurs. For the following five minutes, players perform the scores they created, using various instruments and objects. The piece will be performed by Matthew Neil Andrews, Loren Chasse, Matt Hannafin, Branic Howard, Juniana Lanning, and Melanie Voytovich (sounds).

Saturday, October 20, 2019
Leaven Community
5431 NE 20th Ave., PDX
Doors 7pm, music 7:30pm
Tickets at door: $10–$20

The Extradition Series presents concerts and recitals of 20th- and 21st-century experimental music, exploring purity, space, sound, and silence. Extradition is curated and directed by Matt Hannafin and presented by the Creative Music Guild.

www.extradition-series.com