PERFORMANCE: Rondo A book launch and performance of music composed and performed by Jacob C. Morris, inspired by Victoria Miguel’s short story Rondo, which will be published in The Proconsul Edition #3, my favourite words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. Rondo is an eight-minute composition consisting of pre-recorded vocal, piano, and guitar fragments accompanied by a live vocal and piano performance.  The composition will be accompanied by a reading of a selection of stories, anecdotes, and definitions from the list of words and quotations in the book performed in relay by two actors. Morris describes Rondo as his "first un-organic composition, which describes a musical impression of a mind wandering, keeping time, keeping itself occupied while we wait for whatever happens next. When I hear music, I primarily hear harmony and melody first, and wanted to subvert my instincts by creating a primarily rhythmic piece, a clock ticking without the chimes of the bells."    Victoria Miguel is a Scottish writer based in New York. She has written about art and music for newspapers and journals and is a member of the faculty for the MA in Contemporary Art program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. Her Internet play, De Tribus Impostoribus, was published by Triple Canopy in 2010. She was the assistant to the Director of the John Cage Trust from 2001 – 2007 for whom she reprised her role as Veblen in the stage adaptation of John Cage's 1982 radio play James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet at Bard College in November 2011. In 2007 she curated a John Cage Film series for the Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh and programmed a day of performances of Cage’s music that uses plants and natural materials as instruments: Cage in the Garden, in the Victorian Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. She is creating an online version of Cage’s 1968 composition, Reunion, to coincide with performances of her play, Laquearia, which will launch in the fall of 2012 in honor of Cage's centenary. She will also contribute a limited edition boxed novella, Smith & Brown, to the exhibition: Matthew Lusk, More Broken Glass Than There Was Window, at Zieher Smith Gallery, N.Y. in September of 2012.   Jacob Carpenter Morris grew up next to a farm in rural Vermont; he was raised on a steady diet of 60's British Rock and Roll and 90's Grunge. At the age of 18 he became interested in 19th century Classical music through reading the biographies of composers at his High School library and started teaching himself piano and composition. He graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio, where he studied composition while continuing to write pop songs and play punk rock shows. He has lived in New York City since graduation, and has recorded and toured extensively as a solo performer and with the bands Ratatat and Pterodactyl. He recorded one of the last John Peel Sessions with his band The Double. In 2010 he composed, ‘VWB 373: Theme for De Tribus Impostoribus’ and Intro & Outro for Victoria Miguel's Internet play, De Tribus Impostoribus. He is also one of four composers contributing music to the online recreation of John Cage's 1968 composition Reunion. An online archive of his compositions from the last 15 years will be available in the summer of 2012.  > March 31, 2012   <- Back to: Performances/Situations
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