Outdoor Music IV
Complete Work Title:
Outdoor Music IV
Performance Medium:
four trumpets and four pedestrians
Duration:
indeterminate
Date Composed:
May 1983; current version revised July 2008.
Performance Information:
The work is performed at a street intersection; changing traffic signals cue the performers and determine the overall duration.
Performance History:
• 7 March 2002; corner of Bell and Administration (Denton, TX) — Texas Woman’s University “Wide Awake” Festival
• 7 June 1996; corner of Archer & Main Street (Tulsa, OK) — Living Arts of Tulsa New Genre Festival
• 19 May 1989; corner of Fourth Street & North Broadway (Lexington, KY) — Al Fresco Festival [premiere]
Downloads & Links:
video excerpts (Quicktime movie)
Recorded 7 June 1996, from the performance at the Living Arts of Tulsa New Genre Festival (video recorded by Steve Liggett; edited by Joseph Klein). Note: The spontaneous participation of the "audience" during this performance resulted in a more exuberant realization than intended—often bordering on mayhem and transforming the work into a full-blown happening. [Of particular interest in this recording is the interaction of the passing train (c.4:00) and the diesel truck (c. 7:20).]
score (pdf)
photograph
From performance at the 1996 New Genre Festival.
