Miya Masaoka
Randy Nordschow
In The Brains of Plants, The Brains of Us
Wednesday, October 17, 8 PM
composer/performance artist Miya Masaoka separately monitors the electrical feedback of plants and human brain activity as the plant and person respond to the audience in the space of the LAB. The audience will be invited to interact with the plant and the human being, eat leafy greens and meat on a nearby snack table, and contemplate the relationship of plants and human beings while listening to the sounds they generate. Vegetarians may choose to eat only greens.
Randy Nordschow will present Fishnets in the Year 2000, a work for mixed ensemble based on I, a text by John Cage. In the spirit of Cage, this piece involves indeterminate elements such as instrumentation, and performance length. Nordschow and other invited instrumentalists will perform as an ensemble acting independently from each other. The music is a direct translation of I from Cage's Norton Lectures I-VI, delivered at Harvard University over thirteenyears ago.

images by Donald Swaringen