Richard Lerman Concert July 25 to Include Piece with Filmed Score

On Saturday, July 25, 2009, pioneering sound artist Richard Lerman will be performing a concert as part of the excellent and always-ongoing Wayward Music Series at the Good Shepherd Center (located at 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. in Seattle, at the SW corner of 50th & Sunnyside in Wallingford).  Admission is a $5 – $15 sliding scale donation at the door.

Among the pieces Lerman will be performing is Sections for Screen, Performers and Audience (1974), the score for which is on 16mm film projected so that both audience and performers can see it.  Joining Lerman in performing the composition are members of the Seattle-based ensemble Eye Music, which specializes in playing graphical scores.

The concert is being produced by Nonsequitur, a longtime supporter of avant garde and creative music.  The Sprocket Society will be helping out by projecting the 16mm film score.  We’re honored and excited to be participating in the program.

Other pieces being performed include:

• Sonic Journeys 2 — excerpts from Lerman’s Transducer Series: multi-channel field recordings made with self-made microphones played over dual video projections of footage from more than fifty Super 8 films made between 1982-1988
• Entrance Music — for home-made microphones and Walkman cassette tape delay
• Changing States 8 — for metal microphones, butane torches and computer
• Music for Plinky, Bicycle & Straw — for home-made instruments, bicycle, drinking straws, and Walkman cassette delay

Beginning the evening’s concert will be “a sonic celebration” for esteemed Seattle musician, sound collector, and instrument builder Susie Kozawa in honor of her 60th birthday. Everyone is encouraged to “Bring an object that makes a sound.”

Richard Lerman bio:

As a sound artist, performer and composer, Richard Lerman traverses worlds of sound and music.

For over forty years, he has been gathering, scanning, seeking sounds and creating works that weave through nature and draw upon living communities and memories in notable landscapes.

Lerman’s performances and recordings rely on everyday objects and traditional instruments as well as basic, self-invented equipment and state-of-the-art technologies, as they were available since the 1960s.  His scores and instructions are deceptively simple, yet produce extraordinary results.

As a filmmaker, sound documentarian, installation artist, and collaborator with other artists, he demonstrates that his conception of sonic reality and musical experience is interdependent with visuality, motion, actual sites and moments, theatricality, live audiences, and politics.

His art takes him from studios and concert halls to cities and the outdoors, worldwide.