Livewire 14: Open Rehearsal of “bayou-borne, for Pauline“

The Livewire 14: Resounding new music festival presents an open rehearsal of bayou-borne, for Pauline, by featured composer Annea Lockwood.

The composer states:

“Bayou-borne, for Pauline (2016) is dedicated to Pauline Oliveros and was composed with her passions in mind. She was born in Houston, Texas, so I created a graphic score from a map of the six bayous which flow through the city to Galveston Bay, thinking that she would have known one or all of those rivers intimately as a child — swimming, wading, river mud between her toes. She was a superb improviser, so it is scored for six improvising musicians with each player reading one of the rivers as a guide. Their lines move independently at first, coming closer together at the confluences to form duets and trios, before converging at the red star, the whole sound darkening as they approach Houston in memory of the devastation and deaths caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

“This is one of eighty-five scores contributed to a memorial celebration of Pauline’s life: Still Listening: New Works in Honour of Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016), held at McGill University, Canada, in 2017. I wish to thank Doris Yokelson for the design of the map.”

Admission is free.

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Linehan Concert Hall, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, is easy to visit, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information.

Livewire is sponsored in part by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA).