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LIVE MOCA 12 01 12

by Mike Crooker

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MOCA Cleveland issued a call for musicians located in Northeast Ohio (and beyond) to participate in a Musicircus in their new building, scheduled for Saturday, December 1, 2012, from 1 - 4 pm. This event celebrates MOCA Cleveland’s move to University Circle as well as the centenary of composer John Cage’s birth (Cage was born on September 5, 1912).

Musicircus is a concept developed by John Cage. According to his original notes for his first musicircus, Cage states “The idea of this composition is nothing more than an invitation to a number of musicians, who perform simultaneously anything or in any way they desire.”

All performers are treated with equal weight and importance. The length of each musician’s or ensemble’s set, along with their order of presentation, is predetermined in advance by utilizing chance procedures from the I Ching.

Performers will be stationed in as many spots in MOCA's new building as possible, to evoke the “simultaneity of unrelated intentions” which Cage sought when he conceived of this framework. Audience members are free to roam and focus their attention on one musician or ensemble at a time, but they won’t be able to escape the tapestry of sounds which permeates a musicircus.

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released December 3, 2012

Circuit Bent Casio SK-1, Roland GR-300 Guitar Synth & Field Recordings.

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Mike Crooker Kent, Ohio

A lifetime of collecting superheterodyning shortwave signals, distant city traffic drones and country wildlife has led to weaving these sounds into performances since 1985. He unearths the subsonic spaces between big events, finding the hidden pulse.

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