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INTERMEDIA

george WASHINGTON (2012-2013) 24', cf. ORCHESTRA and MULTIMEDIA
Orchestra, 3 Narrators, Video projection,
Real-time sound processing and spatialization
2 Fl (Picc), Al-fl, 2 Ob, Ca, 2 Cl, B-cl, Cbs-cl, 2 Bsn, Cbsn,
4 Hn, 3 Tpt, 2 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, 3 Perc, Pf, Hp,
Strings in traditional 5 sections
Text assembled by the composer from Washington’s dairies and correspondence
Ross Karre, Videographer, Jaime Oliver, Computer Cues, Josef Kucera, Sound Design Text assembled by the composer from Washington’s dairies and correspondence
First performances: 3, 4, 5 October 2013
National Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Conductor
Clark Young, Thomas Keegan, Philip Larson, Narrators
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Washington, DC
Co-commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra through a grant from the John and June Hechinger Commissioning Fund for New Orchestral Works, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, and the University of California
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TECHNICAL MANUAL Four Real-Time Algorithms, Roger Reynolds (with Jaime E. Oliver and Paul Hembree) (2015) Technical manual for the use of software in the works of Roger Reynolds (SEASONS: Cycle 1, Dream Mirror, MARKed MUSIC, Toward Another World: LAMENT, Positings, george WASHINGTON, FLiGHT, "Shifting, Drifting," ACTIONS, PERSISTENCE)
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KNOWING / NOT KNOWING (2022-2024)
Narrator, recorded voices, mixed chorus, 2 percussion, trombone, actor
8-channel sound and video projections
First performance: 17 March 2024
UC San Diego Park & Market
San Diego, California
Kyle Johnson, filmmaker and video design
Jacob Sundstrom, electronics and sound design
Robert Castro, stage director
Steven Schick, conductor
Juan Carlos Acosta, choir conductor
Leslie Ann Leytham, creative producer
Performances By
Aiyun Huang, percussion
Berk Schneider, trombone
Kosuke Matsuda, percussion
Jesse Perez, actor
SACRA / PROFANA, choir

Abstract
One in a series of intermedia creations by Roger Reynolds, this centers on a poetic American: John Cage as composer, writer, philosopher, visual artist, and performer. The presentation offers a personalized perspective on (and around) Cage and his work. Subjects for Reynolds’s texts include ENCOUNTERS (his first meeting with Cage), CHANCE AND INDETERMINACY (as manifested in life), SHARING (meals), THE SPACE OF SILENCE (doing an interview with Cage), CONTEXT OR FEATURES (an exploration of how musical experiences mean), and CHAGRIN (a detailed discussion of an interaction with Cage involving his “Themes and Variations” text). Also included are recorded passages from a conversation between Cage and Reynolds at the University of Toronto (on Duchamp, cooking, Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras, and Cage’s view of his work), as well as some of the Indeterminacy stories as recorded by Cage. The texts are spatialized, both live and recorded readings, and are interpenetrated by projected images and also performances by pianist Jenny Lin of Cage’s SEASONS (excerpts), Quest (complete), and ONE (complete), the first of the late number pieces.

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PASSAGE 8: "On Learning, Varèse, Cage, Ashley, Musical Experience, and Intermedia" (2012)

Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds

Performance date: 6 December 2012
Paul Hembree, Technical support
imagE/viola, John Pickford Richards, Viola

Toward Another World Preliminary version, Bill Kalinkos, Clarinet, Paul Hembree, Real-Time algorithmic transformation
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall
Harvard University, Cambridge

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PASSAGE 9: "Alliances, Realization, Benediction, The Sublime, The Space of Silence, Sharing, The Inexplicable, Anotherworldly Intersection, What Was Needed, Context or Features, Cross-Modality, Obligation: A Meander" (2012-2013)

Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds

Texts and Narration: Roger Reynolds
Image preparation: Paul Hembree
Recording and editing of texts: Paul Hembree

On screen:
[Tadashi Suzuki’s production of Chekhov’s Ivanov (NHK recorded excerpt), Music by Roger Reynolds],
[MARKed MUSIC (excerpt) performed by Mark Dresser (Contrabass) and
Paul Hembree (real-time algorithmic sound processing)
Audio recording and editing: Michael Ricca
Editing: Ross Karre, Kyle Johnson, and Frankie Martin]

Performance date: 13 March 2013
Chatter/Clatter, Steven Schick (Percussion) and Paul Hembree (Computer Musician)
imagE/flute, Rachel Beetz, Flute
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, Conrad Prebys Music Center
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California

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Trailer by Kyle Johnson and Josef Kucera for Reynolds's PASSAGE 9 from Roger Reynolds on Vimeo.

Passage 10: "Musings on “Good Lives”: Relationships, Sustenance, Aspirations –
Truth, Secrets, Boundaries, Purpose, Flight" (2013-2014) 58'53"

Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds

Montaged words of Reynolds, Lucretius, John Ashbery, Milan Kundera, Richard Wilbur, Emily Dickinson, Roberto Bolaño
Paul Hembree, Technical support, image preparation, text recording, spatialization
"In this series, eight of UC San Diego's finest teachers and scholars share their pursuit of 'The Good Life'."
Performance date: 3 March 2014
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
Conrad Prebys Music Center
University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California

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UCSD-TV complete video of PASSAGE 10 by Roger Reynolds

PASSAGE 11: "Collaboration, Cage, Takemitsu, Xenakis, the Sublime, and Obligation" (2016)

Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds

Performance date: 3 August 2016
Johannes Regnier and Paul Hembree, Technical support
With the Arditti String Quartet (performing three movements from not forgotten, and
Irvine Arditti performing the 3^rd cadenza from Aspiration)
Darmstadt, Germany, 70^th Anniversary Celebration

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PASSAGE 12: "ALLIANCES, SHARING, UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT, ANOTHERWORLDLY INTERSECTION, BENEDICTION, THE SPACE OF SILENCE, CONTEXT OR FEATURES?"
(concerning Xenakis, Takahashi, Takemitsu, Arditti, Cage, Czernowin. and Tiensuu) (2023)

Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds

Performance date: 17 April 2023
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
April in Santa Cruz Festival
Department of Music, University of California Santa Cruz

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PASSAGE 13: “Alliances, Unawares, Sharing, Understanding the Context, Benediction, The Source of Force, The Sublime, Futures, Anotherworldly Intersection, What was Needed, Resolute, Obligation: A Meander, Elevated Purpose, Considering a Capitol, Context or Features?” (referencing Takemitsu, Czernowin, Cage, Xenakis, Tiensuu, and Ligeti) (2024)

Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds

Performance date: 10 March 2024
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
Roger Reynolds, Narrator
Meyer/Pearson Theatre, 15:00-16:50
CNMAT
University of California Berkeley
INTERMEDIA and SERIES OF WORKS

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