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Noted, a one-day musicology/culture conference, a four-month long contemporary Chinese art exhibition, and a possibly wonderful new, Japanese-design influenced contemporary art and film museum (in London, Berkeley, and Berkeley, respectively):

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"Please take notice of this interesting event dedicated to minimalist music and organized by the Goldsmiths University of London. The event forsees speeches of chritics and musical exibitions [sic].

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GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

MINIMALISM, POST-OPERA AND PERFORMANCE

SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2008

10.00 - 5.00

A one-day colloquium organised in association with the Society for
Minimalist Music


VENUES: Small Hall and Great Hall
Goldsmiths, University on London
New Cross
London
SE14 6NW
UK

Convenors: Keith Potter and Pwyll ap Sion
Free admission

PROGRAM FOR THE MORNING SESSION
Small Hall

10.00 Coffee and Welcome
10.30-12.30 POST-OPERA
Chair: Pwyll ap Sion

10.30 Tara Wilson, “Analysing the ‘Esthesic’ within
(Post-)Minimalist Music: a new critical approach and comparative case
study involving the ‘post-operatic ‘ works of Alexander Knaifel and
Philip Glass”

11.00 Virginia Anderson, “Perfect Lives, Extended Relationships and
False Endings: experimental postmodernism, the spoken voice and
melodrama”

11.30 Jelena Novak, “Repeating the Body in Music: the corporeal
identity between performance art and post-operatic spectacle”

12.00 John Pymm, “Different Trains, the Opera?”

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

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PROGRAM FOR THE AFTERNOON SESSION

2.00-5.00 THE PERFORMANCE OF MINIMALIST MUSIC

2.00-3.00
Great Hall

Bryn Harrison, Piano Set (six miniatures) and Jeremy Peyton Jones,
Out of Gat and Brodsky (world premiere of version for solo piano)
(Andriana Minou and Nikos Stavlas, piano)

Steve Reich, Violin Phase (Mizuka Yamamoto, violin; Rick Campion,
tape and sound diffusion)
3.00 Tea
3.30-5.00
Small Hall

Roundtable on Performance Issues in Minimalist Music
Chair: Keith Potter

Participants to include Rick Campion, Bryn Harrison, Andriana Minou,
Jeremy Peyton Jones, Francis Silkstone, Nikos Stavlas and Mizuka
Yamamoto.

REGISTRATION

Please register your attendance by e-mailing Keith Potter on
k.potter@gold.ac.uk, or telephoning London (0)20 7919 7640, by Monday
8 September.

Source: www.musicalworlds.it Music*Art*Literature

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Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection
September 10, 2008 - January 4, 2009

Chinese art has undergone enormous changes over the forty-year period from the Cultural Revolution to today. This transformation, at times glacially slow and at other times explosively fast, is represented at BAM/PFA this fall in artworks from the Sigg Collection, on view in the BAM Galleries, and in the films of Jia Zhangke and Ning Ying at the PFA Theater.

In 141 works by ninety-six artists, the exhibition Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection represents the historical span of art from the 1970s to today in China and demonstrates the dramatic evolution that has occurred, with artists exploring new materials and concepts far from what might have been imagined by even the most clairvoyant. As Chinese art emerged from the boundaries of state-sponsored and state-defined aesthetics to the complex initiatives of individuals with new intentions and motivations, it is possible to see the growth and development not only of art but of a nation." ...

Source: [Current] Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

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Header photo captions:

Weng Fen: On the Wall—Guangzhou (II), 2002; color photograph; 49 x 67 in.; courtesy of Sigg Collection.

Huang Yan: Chinese Landscape: Tattoo No. 2, 1999; color photograph; 19 x 24 in.; courtesy of Sigg Collection.

Toyo Ito: 2008 Design for the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California.

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Photo credits: Courtesy of Sigg Collection [currently, Switzerland, European Union] and (c) Toyo Ito and www.worldarchitecture.com. All rights reserved. With thanks.