“From a certain point of view improvisation is the highest mode of musical activity, for it is based on the acceptance of music’s fatal weakness and essential and most beautiful characteristic -its transience. The desire always to be right is an ignoble taskmaster, as is the desire for immortality. The performance of any vital action brings us closer to death; if it...
live electronics remix on the VNM Community Ensemble performance of Conelius Cardew’s Treatise trteatiseremix [Download] see also this page More about Treatise: • A Young persons Guide to Treatise • Cornelius Cardew – A Life Unfinished by John Tilbury, Copula, 2008 • Roberts Kirkpatrick’s report on Treatise workshop with John Tilbury at VNM • Seattle Improv Meeting recording archive containing many recordings of Treatise...
by Cornelius Cardew Listen, watch and read here about the performance of Treatise by Cornelius Cardew • Vancouver, January 27, 2006 • VNM Community Ensemble led by John Tilbury. Thank you to Robert j Kirkpatrick for his passion and great documentation of this and many great events. se also this page STATEMENT by John Tilbury (March 2003) Yes, I am talking about...