PROJECTS
Arietta: Fragments After Beethoven’s Sonata 32 in C minor
A collaborative, sound-text media work created with poet Kristen Case, presented at the Belfast Poetry Festival, Maine (October, 2014)
The Opus 111 Project: Intermedia Variations on
Beethoven’s Last Piano Sonata, 2014
A curated project in collaboration with visual artists, philosophers, musicians, sound artists, and others to create a variation-response to some aspect of Beethoven’s final piano sonata
Paper/Roundtable Discussion: “Merleau-Ponty, Late Beethoven, and an Intermedia Performance in Rural Maine, United States” Ninth International Conference on the Arts in Society, ”The Lives of Art” Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. July 2014
Interdisciplinary Performances: Six programs featuring a performance of Opus 111 with several of the following variations (April, 2014):
Theme Steven Pane - Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C minor, Opus 111
Variation 1 Nate Vallette ’14 - sound installation: Variations on a Theme: A Networked, Collaborative Installation For Any Number of Participants, Based on the Theme from the 2nd Movement of Opus 111.
Variation 2 Jonathan Cohen - presentation-discussion: Perpetual Progress vs. Perennial Paradox: Hegel, Kierkegaard, and late Beethoven
Variation 3 Gustavo Aguilar - The Visible And Invisible For Piano, Four Tape Recorders, Voice, And Six Audience Members
Variation 4 Phil Carlsen, UMF Community Orchestra - Phantastische Sonate for Piano And Orchestra
Variation 5: Kristen Case - poetic reading - Arietta: Fragments After Beethoven's Sonata 32 In C Minor
Variation 6: Matthew Houston ‘12 - reading - The Play of Difference
Variation 7: Michael Johnson and the students of HON 277 Analyze This!!!!!!* Said Edward, 'What is Late Style?' Answered Langston Hughes, 'Ask Your Mama’"
Variation 8: Christine Darrohn - reading - Late (fiction)
Variation 9: Daniel Woodward - tenor - Mozart, Abendempfindung Richard Strauss, Morgen
Variation 10: Henry Braun - reading - John Keats, The Living Hand and other poetry
The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge:
a sequence for poetry, piano, and video
A collaboration with video artist, Dawn Nye and poet Jeff Thomson based on Schumann’s Carnaval and Thomson’s poem cycle, Celestial Emporium, UMF (September, 2011)
Goldberg Variations: The Ecstasy of Always Bursting Forth
A collaboration with author Patricia O’Donnell blending Bach’s Goldberg Variations with fragments of text, UMF (April, 2007)