I'm going to try to maintain something of a list of upcoming performances, especially when groups of them are occurring together, as is happening over the next couple months. I hope it is useful (and not annoying). Please say hello if you are in the neighborhood of one of these!
France/Belgium/England
Saturday, October 8, 7:30p.m. Sonorités, Montpellier, France
I will be giving the first performance of a new piece for solo electric guitar: melody, silence and playing fields have ears (4) with an ensemble assembled by Didier Aschour.
October 12–15, Field Fest, Q-02, Brussels, Belgium
Concerts, installations and talks, along with, among others, Manfred Werder, Annea Lockwood, Toshiya Tsunoda, Eric La Casa, Jason Kahn, Jez riley French and Emmanuel Holterbach.
Monday, October 17, 6 p.m., CRISAP (Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice), London College of Communication
A field recording symposium along with Annea Lockwood and Emmanuel Holterbach (including a discussion of flussaufwärtstreiben).
The Carolinas, October 21th to the 26th
Friday, October 21, 9 p.m., Conundrum Music Hall, Columbia, South Carolina
Michael Pisaro / Greg Stuart, New Music Workshop
Transparent City (2.12)
fields have ears (4)
First performance of The Bell-Maker (performance version).
Saturday, October 22, 9:30 p.m., Nightlight, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
GregStuart/Michael Pisaro and Ryan Gustafson
A transparent gate (with ten panels) performed by Greg Stuart
Sunday,October 23, 2 p.m., WXYC Radio, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Beckett pieces (8a – 8e), from the harmony series (Michael Pisaro, Greg Stuart)
Tuesday, October 25, 7 p.m. Experimental Percussion with Greg Stuart and Michael Pisaro, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
Selections from the harmony series (Greg Stuart, Michael Pisaro)
Hearing Metal 3 (New Music Workshop, Greg Stuart)
Wednesday, October 26, 8 p.m., Recital Hall, Simons Center for the Arts, Charleston, South Carolina, Pisaro, Stuart, members of the New Music Workshop (Columbia, SC), and New Music Collective (Charleston, SC)
The rain of alphabets [harmony series no. 19]
A few other performances in October and November:
Haptic performs Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation, a new, hour-long piece written specifically for the talents of Adam Sonderberg, Joseph Clayton Mills and Steven Hess.
Friday, October 21, 8 p.m., Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago
Sunday, October 23, 7 p.m., Studio Z, St. Paul, Minnesota
Thursday, October 27, 8 p.m., The Wild Beast, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
Guitar (+1), Charles Underriner, guitar
rapport abstrait (with Brendan Byrnes, guitar), é la fora (with Ingrid Lee, harmonium), black, white, red, green, blue (solo guitar)
Friday, October 28, 8 p.m. Rolf Julius Memorial Concert, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Works by Julius, Hans Peter Kuhn, Bernhard Leitner, Miki Yui.
First performance of asleep, stream, rice, violin (a ten minute piece for 4-channel audio, including recordings of Johnny Chang, violin and Greg Stuart, rice percussion, and the Big Sur River)
Wednesday, November 2, 9 p.m., Concert Minimal, O Tannenbaum, Sonnenallee 27, Berlin Neukölln
Lucio Capece, bass clarinet, Johnny Chang, viola, Koen Nutters, bass, and Hannes Lingens, accordion, play Sometimes from the harmony series.
London/Wandelweiser
Wednesday, November 2, Poetry as Score, Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, 7:30pm (pre-concert discussion 6.30-7pm)
Jürg Frey- Landschaft mit Wörtern (selection) (2003)
Manfred Werder - 2009/4
Michael Pisaro - A single charm is doubtful [harmony series no.14] (2004-6)
Antoine Beuger - Confidential Letter #7 (2011)
Performers: Antoine Beuger, Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Tim Parkinson, Michael Pisaro, David Stent, Carol Watts and Manfred Werder.
Grúndelweiser, November 3 to November 6, Cut & Splice, ICA, London
Members of Wandelweiser (Antoine Beuger, Jürg Frey, Eva-Maria Houben, Marcus Kaiser, Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro, Burkhard Schlothauer, Manfred Werder) and Grúpat (Jennifer Walshe)
