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Composers in the Poet’s Cabinets: Works on Paper #1

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland

Works on Paper #1: CASPAR SONNET, ROBERT BLATT, & BEN GLAS Three experimental compositions by local composers $5-15 suggested donation, no one turned away The first in an ongoing series of events that use concepts, characteristics, and histories of the book as a frame for exploratory practice across the arts, Works on Paper #1 presents compositions from three local composers. Caspar Sonnet's "Choral for 5 Alpine Bells" recalls the story of Theseus and the Chair of Forgetfulness in the Almglocken's haunting sound. Robert Blatt's piece explores paper as a carrier for language, instruction, and music, and as a sensual object in itself. Ben Glas's aleatoric "Score for Islands" uses a cocktail-party effect to draw semantic and semiotic connections among the many texts and voices of…

$5 – $15