CIE History and Evolution

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This page a work in progress as of April 2024. Please feel free to suggest addition and modications.

There is a web page here https://composers-inside-electronics.net/cie/cie/cie_history.html and available below which was a point in time description of Composers Inside Electronics from 1973 to 2014.

As of April 2024, we have several projects in development

  • Cluster Fields and Gestures / Murmurations at Zuccaire Gallery Stony Brook Staller Center for the Perorming Arts
  • Formulation of the David Tudor Sound Lab (DTSL) as a program under Composers Inside Electronics
  • establishing CIE Collection – portfolio of current portfolio and archival material
  • Gestures / Murmurations preview at Issue Project Room April 24,2024
  • Re-embodied Sounds at EMPAC – March 2024

Evolution 2014-2024

CIE over the decades has undergone various manifestations, focus, and personnel. As of 2014, in retrospect we had concluded a body of work focused on Rainforest IV as a performed installation. With Rainforest V in Mexico City and Governors Island, we began seeking a more permanent place for the work as a self-running installation. We had the idea for a virtual Rainforest as a concept without a concrete means to proceed on that. Our work was shifting from performance to unattended and interactive installations.

Driscoll and Edelstein started the internet domain composer-inside-electronics.net. We were using the Apple iWeb application for managing public and private online web pages. By around 2014, Apple had dropped support for iWeb. We continued using that for a number of years until operating system upgrades no longer allowed that 32-bit app to be effectively utilized along with browser support for various widgets and media links no longer usable. Those pages are still avalable here http://composers-inside-electronics.net/cie/cie/cie_home.html.

Julie Martin invited John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein to E.A.T. Revisited Symposium at the Exploratorium. This was catalyst for sequence of activities triggered by a number of factors in conjunction with a visit to the Getty Research Institute going through the Tudor collection and the realization of possibilities for a Rainforest V as an edition, discusions with Patricia Lent from the Cunningham Trust regarding opportunities based in referrals for realization of the Tudor works incorporated in upcoming Cunningham realizations, and the Tudor instruments at Wesleyan.

In summary, the decade from 2014-2024 saw :

  • the 4 acquisitions of the Rainforest V edition as a CIE focus and related publications and online documentation
  • proliferation of Rainforest IV at various degrees of association with CIE and note several unaffiliated realizations
  • realization of a repetoire of Tudor work through synergies between the RF V opportunities, understandings coming the Tudor materials at GRI and the Wesleyan instrument collection
  • evolving collaborative threads (E.g. Driscoll – Lopez, Jaffé – Edelstein, Driscoll – Edelstein) with intertwinings and transference between performance and installation
  • realizations with dance companies of some of the Cunningham-Tudor repetoire: (w/Stephen Pertronio, Ballet De Lorraine, Lyon Opera Ballet)
  • Projects such as Unexpected Territories with Singuhr and Teasing Chaos at MdM

Here is more details list of notable highlightes (links to be supplied) …

  • Rainforest IV at Brown and Caramoor including workshops with new generations of collaborators
  • E.A.T. Revisited at Stevens Institute including workshop and working with Scot Gresham-Lancaster with his live link to the Neural Network synthesizer located in Mark Holler’s winery
  • formulaton of Rainforest V edition of 4 variations of 20 object each now in the collection of:
    • MdM Salzburg including
      • showing as part of the E.A.T. exibition there
      • loans to Lyon Biennale, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Kresfeld Museum
    • MAC Lyon
    • MoMA NY including
      • Forest Speech ensemble workshop and performances at MoMA
      • lecture demo
      • 3d video and virtual walkthru (with Seth Cluett and Chris Manzione)
    • Arter Istanbul including
      • workshops with Columbia University Computer Music Dept and MIAM (Istanbul)
      • 50 Looks inside Rainforest V
      • on-line interviews including: Gordon Mumma, Julie Martin, Driscoll, Edelstein, Rogalsky, Laura Kuhn and others
      • concept plan for the David Tudor Sound Lab
  • Bloodlines Project and touring with Stephen Petronio Dance Company: ensembles for realizaions of Cunningham;s RainForest, Signals, and Tread (with Christian Wolff’s “For 1, 2 or 3 Players” )
  • Fridman Gallery New Ear Festival and offshoots include a realization of Apple Box Orchestra for Pauline Oliveros memorial at the Park Avenue Armory (with remembrances of E.A.T. 9 Evenings in the Drill Hall)
  • projects such as RainForest for Ballet de Lorraine and Exchange with Tudor’s Weatherings for Lyon Opera Ballet (sound design Edelstein with performances : Montpellier, dance festival Paris Theatre du Chalet and 2 seasons in Lyon
  • Various of other performances:
    • Queens University Kingston ON (organized by Matt Rogalksy)
    • Kitchen Festival (organized by Driscoll and Edelstein)
    • Wesleyan Idio Entre Festival (organized by Ron Kuivila)
  • Rainforest IV at Wesleyan as part of SEAMUS conference
  • Teasing Chaos at MdM Salzburg with new installation works by John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Paul DeMarinis, along with performances with John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Matt Rogalsky/Dimitri Georgaras
  • Unexpected Territories Berlin produced by SigUhr
  • working with Michael Johnsen in his re-creation of the Mumma Sound Modifier from Pavilion
  • consultation on the E.A.T. exhibition and performances planned for 2024 at Getty Research Institute
  • Other collaborations with CIE extended group of collaborators:
    • Cluster Fields (Driscoll, Edelstein) – University of Maryland Art Gallery and New Bedford Art Museum
    • Gestures /Mumurations (Lopez, Driscoll)
    • LocaleS2 (Jaffé, Edelstein, Reeder)
  • Re-embodied Sound at EMPAC (RPI) and Rainforest IV workshop and realization
  • Performances at venus such at the Kitchen, Spectrum, Roulette

See also You Nakai’s book “Reminded by the Instruments“

From CIE Legacy Site 1973-2014

https://composers-inside-electronics.net/cie/cie/cie_history.html

Other Links

John Driscoll Chronology
Rainforest Chronology
Index of Edelstein Works, Events, Venues, Projects

Please contact Phil Edelstein for further updates here or Comments below.

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