Soundfield@Slought

Slought Foundation

2008

$20,000

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Theo Bleckmann.

The Slought Foundation presented Soundfield@Slought, a collaboration with Soundfield, featuring a series of concerts and educational programs with local and international artists. Performers included Austrian sound artist and composer Werner Moebius in a program of multimedia works; German composer Michael Maierhof with Ensemble Noamnesia; American composer and vocal artist Theo Bleckmann; Ensemble On-Line Vienna; and Taiwan's Chai Found Music Workshop playing music by Hwang Long Pan and Chao-Ming Tung.

Recipients

Slought Foundation

Performance

Music

Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on Contextualizing Classical Works

Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on keeping centuries-old works relevant in a modern context.

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Maryanne Amacher: Ways of Hearing (Workshop)

As part of Maryanne Amacher: Perceptual Geographies, Bowerbird presents Ways of Hearing, a multi-part workshop led by the artist group Supreme Connections.

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Mendelssohn Club's St. Matthew Passion Symposium

Mendelssohn Club Artistic Director Alan Harler and a panel of experts will lead a discussion on Mendelssohn's editing choices in considering Bach's original score.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The Kimmel Center, Inc., best known as a presenting organization and home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Ballet, is one of the most well-attended cultural venues in Philadelphia.

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Departure and Discovery: The Voice of a Visionary

The Voice of a Visionary explores the profound work of Schubert in his last year, featuring Piano Sonata in A Major and Schwanengesang.

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Ars Nova's New Paths Festival Presents Milford Graves at Bartram's Garden

For his first Philadelphia appearance in over four decades, Milford Graves will present a rare solo performance inside the oldest barn in Philadelphia County at Bartram's Garden.

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crazy beautiful

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Tania Isaac (2011) presents an iteration of her Center-funded discovery project open notebook: crazy beautiful.

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The Quiet Circus: River Charrette 4

Headlong presents the fourth and final performance in its series of River Charrettes, exploring Philadelphia’s watershed and urban expansion

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Fred Hersch

Fred Hersch is an improviser, composer, educator, recording artist, and a twelve-time Grammy Award nominee.

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Grants & Grantees

Hello Blackout!

This world premiere will integrate contingency—accident, chance, and improvisation—into the ensemble's physical theater style, with live music by composer and Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey.

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Ashon Crawley

Ashon Crawley is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside.

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Emerging Voices: Art Song and Social Connection

A concert series curated in collaboration with tenor vocalist Nicholas Phan illuminates the evolution of art song and how the form, with its intersection of poetry and music, remains a powerful vehicle for social exchange.

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An Investigation of Contingency and the Uses of Data Streams

New Paradise Laboratories' core ensemble will expand their devised theater techniques and lay the groundwork for a series of new pieces, through investigations of improvisational structures, games of chance, and audience interactivity, with a group of international practitioners including composer Bhob Rainey and UK game theory specialist Tassos Stevens.

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PRISM Quartet Presents Color Theory: Composers Forum

PRISM Quartet's Color Theory features a series of performances, lectures, and workshops that investigate the concept of "musical color," including a Composers Forum.

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Anna Halprin

Anna Halprin is a pioneering choreographer whose work has led to a reconsideration of dance as an art form.

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Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Dixon Gottschild’s 50-year career as a writer and cultural scholar surveys the presence and influence of the black dancing body in America, in what she calls “choreography for the page.”

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Chopin's Voice: Chopin's Music in Performance

This interactive panel discussion, part of Swarthmore's Chopin Without Music, reveals new possibilities for contemporary theater and classical music to intersect in performance.

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Open Sound Workshop with Mike Bullock

Mike Bullock holds a workshop previewing his Center-funded project The Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland.

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A Billion Nights on Earth at Brooklyn Academy of Music

Thaddeus Phillips brings his family-friendly, visual theater work to the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: Terri Lyne Carrington's Money Jungle

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with Grammy winner Terry Lyne Carrington performing selections from her album Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue.

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