PETR KOTIK IN ALBANY

by Pierre Joris · March 19, 2009

THE PETR KOTIK RESIDENCY AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY

“Music of Words, Poetry of Sounds: A Residency with Petr Kotik”

MARCH 26th – 28th, 2009

The Kotik Residency is a three-day event featuring an open rehearsal, a talk, and two evenings of performances centering around the composer and conductor Petr Kotik.

Quick links for information about Petr Kotik and his SEM Ensemble:

* for Petr Kotik: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Kotik & http://www.semensemble.org/pk.html

* for SEM: http://www.semensemble.org/

The College of Arts and Sciences created a web page with the press release: http://www.albany.edu/cas/updated/version02/CAS/Event-PetrKotik.html

With the exception of the Saturday evening performance, all events are FREE.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

DAY ONE Thursday, March 26 (1 event-FREE)

* Kotik–open rehearsal/talk in the Performing Arts Center Recital Hall (7-9 pm)

DAY TWO Friday, March 27 (2 events-FREE)

* Kotik–talk/open lecture in the English Department (3 pm in HU 354)

* Sound-Text Performances at UAlbany Art Museum (6-8 pm) by the

Be Blank Consort (BBC) and a re-visioning of John Cage’s “Empty Words”

featuring Petr Kotik

DAY THREE Saturday, March 28 (1 event-Tickets $8; students $5)

Performance at UA Performing Arts Center; pieces by Petr Kotik, John Cage,

Morton Feldman, Phill Niblock, and Jackson Mac Low (7 pm) as performed

by members of the UAlbany Percussion Ensemble and members of the

UAlbany Chamber Singers.

* Phill Niblock’s PK & SLS (1989) for flutes, performed simultaneously

with Niblock’s video Movement of People Working (1973-91)

* John Cage’s Solos (1958), simultaneously performed with Cage’s

Fontana Mix (1958), for 4-channel tape

* Jackson Mac Low’s Milarepa Gatha (1977) for chorus

* Petr Kotik’s The Plains at Gordium (2004) for six percussionists

* Morton Feldman’s Christian Wolff in Cambridge (1963), for chorus

A Sound Exhibition; An Exhibition of Scores and Visual Poetry—March to May, 2009 (FREE)

An exhibit of scores and visual poetry at the UAlbany Main Library from January 09 to May 09. The exhibit of scores and visual poetry will include works by Petr Kotik, works from The Geof Huth Papers in the The M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, and various visual-poetry works and scores by the Be Blank Consort and its blank affiliates.

For further information, contact Bernadette Socha at musinfo@albany.edu or 518.442.4187.

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Pierre Joris, born in Strasbourg, France in 1946, was raised in Luxembourg. Since age 18, he has moved between Europe, the Maghreb & the US & holds both Luxembourg & American citizenship. He has published over 80 books of poetry, essays, translations & anthologies — most recently Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021) & Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. In 2020 his two final Paul Celan translations came out: Microliths They Are, Little Stones (Posthumous prose, from CMP) & The Collected Earlier Poetry (FSG). Forthcoming are: Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge” (Small Orange Import, 2023) & Diwan of Exiles: A Pierre Joris Reader (edited with Ariel Reznikoff, 2024). For a full list see the right column on this blog.

In 2011 Litteraria Pragensia, Charles University, Prague, published Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-between, edited by Peter Cockelbergh, with essays on Joris’ work by, among others, Mohammed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Robert Kelly, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Jean Portante, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff & Nicole Peyrafitte (2011).

Other work includes the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; Mitch Elrod, guitar; Ta’wil Productions). With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, and with Habib. Tengour Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3: The University of California Book of North African Literature.

When not on the road, he lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife, multimedia praticienne Nicole Peyrafitte. A volume of their collaborative work, to be called Domopoetics, will be published in the near future.