{"id":5855,"date":"2026-04-06T01:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:04:49","slug":"bowerbird-david-tudor-a-view-from-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/bowerbird-david-tudor-a-view-from-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowerbird &#8211; David Tudor: a View from Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_87 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a975332c3c64\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a975332c3c64\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/bowerbird-david-tudor-a-view-from-inside\/#Web_page\" >Web page<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/bowerbird-david-tudor-a-view-from-inside\/#March_6_Concert\" >March 6 Concert<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/bowerbird-david-tudor-a-view-from-inside\/#March_7_Concert\" >March 7 Concert<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Web_page\"><\/span>Web page<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowerbird.org\/event\/david-tudor-a-view-from-inside\/\">https:\/\/www.bowerbird.org\/event\/david-tudor-a-view-from-inside\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8221;\u00a0January 15 to March 21, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pearlstein Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3401 Filbert St<br>Philadelphia, 19104<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Free<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This event has passed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>David Tudor: A View From Inside<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0celebrates the life, work, and legacy of David Tudor (1926\u20131996), a Philadelphia-born pioneer of experimental music and sound art, on the centenary of his birth in 2026. Over the course of his career, Tudor treated sound not as something merely to be played, but as something to be set into motion. He built circuits and performance systems the way he once worked through a music score: by patient trial, calibration, and attention to what the materials disclosed. The result is a body of work in which the line between performer and composer repeatedly dissolves\u2014interpretation shading into engineering, engineering into composition.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowerbird.org\/event\/rainforest-composers-inside-electronics\/\">https:\/\/www.bowerbird.org\/event\/rainforest-composers-inside-electronics\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"March_6_Concert\"><\/span>March 6 Concert<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowerbird.org\/event\/forest-speech-and-piano\/\">https:\/\/www.bowerbird.org\/event\/forest-speech-and-piano\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday \u2013 8:00pm (ET)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 6, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Community Education Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3500 Lancaster Avenue<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$15 \u2013 $30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This event has passed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Amy Williams and a performance of David Tudor\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Forest Speech<\/em>&nbsp;led by Composer Inside Electronic\u2019s Phil Edelstein with Daniel Fishkin, Michael Johnsen, Victoria Keddie, Eugene Lew, and Gianna Santucci.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This concert celebrates David Tudor\u2019s dual legacy as both a revolutionary pianist and electronic music pioneer. The program opens with Amy Williams performing works by Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earle Brown that were written for and premiered by Tudor in the 1950s. As one of the most sought-after interpreters of piano music in his generation, Tudor\u2019s performances transformed indeterminate scores into vivid sonic experiences, establishing new possibilities for what piano performance could be. Williams, a composer and pianist known for her deep engagement with contemporary repertoire and her acclaimed recordings of Morton Feldman and other experimental composers, brings her own interpretive insight to these historically significant works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Johnsen performs Tudor\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Untitled<\/em>&nbsp;(1972), a seminal work of live-electronic music in which modular electronic components are configured to form feedback loops that generate sounds without exterior input. Composed for simultaneous performance with John Cage\u2019s vocalization of his&nbsp;<em>Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Untitled<\/em>&nbsp;represents Tudor\u2019s pioneering experiments in creating electronic sound without oscillators, tone generators, or recorded natural sound materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The evening concludes with&nbsp;<em>Forest Speech<\/em>&nbsp;(1976), a rarely performed work from Tudor\u2019s Rainforest family that uses amplified objects as \u201cinstrumental loudspeakers.\u201d Developed in 1976 and expanded as a group version in 1978,&nbsp;<em>Forest Speech<\/em>&nbsp;transforms sound into vocal-like illusions through formant resonances and vocoder-like circuit networks. This performance version utilizes everyday objects fitted with sonic transducers\u2014metal barrels, plastic tubing, found materials\u2014that resonate and shape electronic sound, creating a dense acoustic environment where physical materials become active participants in the composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PROGRAM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Morton Feldman:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Intermission 6 (version 1)<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(1953)<br><strong>Earle Brown:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Four Systems<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(1953)<br><strong>Morton Feldman:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Extensions 3<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(1952)<br><strong>John Cage:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Water Music<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(1952)<br><strong>Morton Feldman:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Intermission 6 (version 2)<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(1953)<br>Amy Williams, piano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Tudor:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Untitled<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(1972)<br>Michael Johnsen, electronics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Tudor:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Forest Speech<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(1976)<br>with Phil Edelstein, Daniel Fishkin, Michael Johnsen, Victoria Keddie, Eugene Lew, Gianna Santucci<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"March_7_Concert\"><\/span>March 7 Concert<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowerbird.org\/event\/tudor-works-for-live-electronics\/\">https:\/\/www.bowerbird.org\/event\/tudor-works-for-live-electronics\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Saturday \u2013 8:00pm (ET)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 7, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Community Education Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3500 Lancaster Avenue<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$15 \u2013 $30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This event has passed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bowerbird is pleased to present Composers Inside Electronics\u2014Phil Edelstein, Ron Kuivila, and Michael Johnsen, with Daniel Fishkin\u2014performing works by David Tudor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), formed in 1973 with David Tudor, pioneered a collaborative approach to live electronic music that treated circuits and components as instruments in themselves rather than as tools. This closing concert of A View from Inside: David Tudor at 100 features an evening of Tudor\u2019s electronic compositions spanning 1970 to 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program opens with&nbsp;<em>Pepscillator<\/em>, one of Tudor\u2019s sound environments created for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo \u201970 in Osaka, Japan. Using chains of audio processors creating multiple self-oscillating feedback loops,&nbsp;<em>Pepscillator<\/em>&nbsp;exemplifies Tudor\u2019s approach to designing systems of electronic components whose interconnections define both the work\u2019s structure and its real-time performance.&nbsp;<em>Pulsers<\/em>&nbsp;(1976) explores rhythms created electronically by analog circuitry, with time-bases that can be varied and destabilized by the performer.&nbsp;<em>Dialects<\/em>&nbsp;(1984) transforms vowel-like and fricative sound sources\u2014the beating of insects\u2019 wings and modulated alpha waves\u2014through vocoder circuits and percussion generators triggered by Jackie Matisse\u2019s vibrating wire flower sculptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concert offers a rare opportunity to experience Tudor\u2019s electronic works performed by artists who worked directly with him and who continue to realize and evolve his vision through their own research and performance practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PROGRAM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Tudor:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Pepscillator<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(1970)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Phil Edelstein and Daniel Fishkin, electronics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Tudor:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Pulsers<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(1976)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Michael Johnsen, electronics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Tudor:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>Dialects<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(1984)<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ron Kuivila, electronics and sculpture by Jackie Matisse&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web page https:\/\/www.bowerbird.org\/event\/david-tudor-a-view-from-inside\/ &#8221;\u00a0January 15 to March 21, 2026 Pearlstein Gallery 3401 Filbert StPhiladelphia, 19104 Free This event has passed David Tudor: A View From [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[311],"tags":[398,54,396,159,32,184,354],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-links","tag-dialects","tag-forest-speech","tag-pepscillator","tag-pulsers","tag-tudor","tag-tudor-electronics","tag-untitled"],"post_type":"post","author_name":"Philip Edelstein","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5860,"href":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions\/5860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composers-inside-electronics.net\/cie-wp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}