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Cage’s Water Music
14 March 2013 at 6pm
Cage’s Water Music
Ikon, Birmingham 1 Oozells Square, B1 2HS United Kingdom 0121 248 0708 http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/Christopher Hobbs Piano BCMG and IKON Gallery present Cage’s Water Music for piano (plus radio, whistles, water containers and a deck of cards) as part of a live internet concert curated by the Forum of Contemporary Music Leipzig – the biggest highlight of the international art and music festival CAGE100. The concert will be one of several Water Music performances across Leipzig’s sister cities from 8 – 15 March, including Bologna, Houston and Lyon – all streamed live on www.cage100.com.
The setting for this six-minute piece is Ikon’s exhibition of work by the Russian artist Timur Novikov – who along with Cage and others, created and performed Water Symphony in St. Petersburg in 1988, a piece symbolising the unification of American capitalist and Soviet state culture.John Cage : Water Music
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