Performance of 2 for 3 at the Cadek Conservatory in 1998 (61.6 MB)
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Performances
by James Powderly
Moseia
Moseia is a music concrete composition of sequenced audio clips, ranging from
interviews with local painters, actors, musicians and performers to found
musical moments and audio recorded under practice room doors and candid
classroom performances. It explores the museum's role and authenticity in both
the fine arts and ethnography.
Make It! Take It!
Make it! Take It! is a piece for four musicians. First, the musicians participate and
make an audio recording of a game of basketball to 5 points. Then the
performers improvise in teams over the basketball game audio and treating it like
a musical score. The musiciansŐ goal is to gain control of the ball and to score
and win. A referee/conductor calls the fouls. Performed in the Roland Hayes
Concert Hall in Spring of 2000, Chattanooga,TN.
Like Gold to Airy Thinness Beat
Beat Based on the poem by John Donne, Valedictory: Forbidding Mourning, this piece
for microtonal solo guitar explores ideas of bodily and harmonic sickness.
Performed at the 1999 Birmingham Southern New Music Festival.
Power Lunch
Power Lunch is a music concrete composition consisting only of sounds recorded
over three days during lunchtime at The River Street Deli in Chattanooga.
Performed in the Cadek Conservatory Hall, Spring 1999.
Mnemosyne and the Roller Coaster Dummy
Mnemosyne was a 17-minute piece for clarinet, alto, soprano and piccolo flute,
french horn, violin, cello, piano, percussion and video. The video was created by
Damien Crisp and explored ideas about the process of forgetting. Performed in
the Roland Hayes Concert hall, Spring 1999.
Two pieces for Three Instruments
2 for 3 is a serial composition for viola, clarinet and bassoon in two movements: a
rondo and a double fugue. Performed in the Cadek Conservatory Hall, Fall 1998.
Somnabulist
Performed as a recording arttist (guitar, vocals, lyrics) for the Laser's Edge record label
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