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

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

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…

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Iridescent Dreams

third room 707 NE Broadway (Suite 205), Portland, OR, United States

Iridescent Dreams Johnny of The johns The Johns are a musically groovy, visually striking, and lyrically unprecedented garage tropicalia band from New York City. The band combines the complexity and insight of The Silver Jews with the immediacy, economy, and seaside sensibilities of The Ramones and the softly intricate rhythms of the Caribbean music heard at every bodega in town. https://www.thejohnsnyc.com/ Lumber & Wire (Caspar Sonnet / Andrew Jones) https://casparsonnet.bandcamp.com/ thecrenshaw.bandcamp.com Erica Schreiner Erica Schreiner creates experimental, allegorical, video art pieces in which she also performs. In these films, she invents ethereal and disturbing imaginary worlds, combining anarchistic themes and feminine sensuality. Originally from Oregon, Erica began making video art by shooting on a VHS camera in her apartment in NW Portland in 2005. She…

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