John King 13 Questions JOHN KING, composer, guitarist and violist, has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet; Red {an orchestra}, Ethel; the Albany Symphony/Dogs of Desire, Bang On A Can All-Stars; Mannheim Ballet; New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo; as well as the Merce Cunningham Dance Co. His string quartets have also been performed by the Eclipse Quartet (LA) and the Mondriaan Quartet (Amsterdam). His quartet Crucible has premiered many of his compositions at The Stone (June 2007), The Kitchen (April 2009), Lincoln Center Festival (July 2011) and Roulette (2012). He has written 3 operas: herzstück/heartpiece, based on the text of Heiner Müller, premiered at the 1999 Warsaw Autumn Festival and presented at the Kitchen NYC in 2000 (a double-opera, co-written with Krzysztof Knittel); la belle captive based on texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet, premiered at Teatro Colon/CETC in Buenos Aires in 2003, and toured to London’s ICA (Fronteras Festival) in 2004 and the Kitchen in 2005; and also his most recent opera, Dice Thrown, based on the Stéphane Mallarmé poem, an excerpt of which was performed by New York City Opera as part of its VOX series in May 2008. The complete staged version was presented at CalArts April 23-24, 2010. He has 3 recent CD releases of music for string quartet; 10 Mysteries and AllSteel (Tzadik); and Ethel (Cantaloupe). He was Music Curator at The Kitchen from 1999-2003 and from 2002-2011 was a co-director of the Music Committee at MCDC. He received the Music/Sound Award for 2014 from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and also he is the recipient of the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Music. Recently, Ive been interested in exploring new ways of organizing musical time. I use what I call time-vectors to chance-determine when sonic material is played, stretching out time, compressing time, and having performers play similar material but allowing the sounds to overlap and expand and contract in varying and random ways. The materials, which fit into these vectors, are a secondary effect of this primary cause--Time. I have also been working on a five-hour long piece for string quartet and live electronics called KOSMOS. I hope to have it completed and performed sometime in 2014. This piece also organizes time in chance-determined ways and allows the four players to perform independently from each other, with randomly determined moments of cohesion of the musical materials, which then dissipate and their independence continues. In my music, there are always three systems interacting: determinate/composed, chance-determined, and spontaneous/improvised music. This trilogic network is used in both the acoustic and electronic sonic realms of my work, and Im always looking to discover new approaches to these materials and their modalities. preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2013/08/john-king-13-questions.html Christian Fennesz preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2015/01/christian-fennesz-13-questions.html Elliot Simpson preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2015/01/elliot-simpson-13-questions.html Amy Denio preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/12/amy-denio-13-questions.html 13 Questions INDEX preparedguitar.blogspot.es/p/descripcion.html And you can join our OPEN facebook channel https://facebook/groups/preparedguitar/
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