Yoshi Wada at Kraak Festival, 2010. Courtesy the artist
This new composition for timpani and highland bagpipes, is performed live within Wada’s sound installation at the Discovery Museum.
Part of the American minimalist music and Fluxus scenes in 1960-70’s New York, Wada was influenced by George Maciunas, La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath.
The exhibition at Discovery Museum continues his pioneering practice of making musical instruments from plumbing pipes and electronics. The immersive sound installation is constructed from organ pipes, sheet metal, steel pipe, sirens, foghorns, alarm bells and a ship’s ventilator. Tuned to the architecture of the Great Hall, the work produces sustained, long drones reverberating through space. More information here.
Yoshi Wada is also performing at the Lament for John Cage concert at The Sage Gateshead on Sat 3 March, and talking about his work on the morning of Sat 3 March at Tyneside Cinema.
Part of Festival Opening Weekend
FREE, no booking required
Sun 4 March, 2-30-3.15pm
Blandford Square
Newcastle NE1 4JA
discoverymuseum.org.uk
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Lament for John Cage
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