Cage Transmitted:
12 evenings celebrating + playing John Cage

Joining the worldwide celebration of the centennial of John Cage, Norte Maar collaborates with E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) to present Cage Transmitted: 12 evenings of performance. The twelve unique evenings, one occurring each month, will span the calendar year of 2012 and will include music, poetry, theater, happenings, visual art, and dance. These unique evenings will be broadcast live from the front room of Norte Maar’s apartment gallery in Bushwick–onto the street and live streamed on the web. Other locations will announced.

Evening 4 of 12: May 10, 7pm at Triple Canopy
Triple Canopy in collaboration with Norte Maar is pleased to present the fourth evening of Cage Transmitted: Celebrating + Playing John Cage, a year-long series of performances and events to celebrate John Cage’s centennial year. The evening will feature two rarely seen performances that reflect on Cage’s relationship to Marcel Duchamp. READ MORE =>

Past Cage Transmitted Evenings:

Evening 1 of 12: Jan 24, 7 pm at Norte Maar
Norte Maar + E.A.T. launched the first of twelve transmitted projects which featured a broadcast of John Cage delivering a lecture to students at Harpur College, Binghamton, NY on January 24, 1967. This event marked the first time the lecture was heard since it was delivered exactly 45 years ago. Six dance companies performed to the voice of John Cage. READ MORE =>

Evening 2 Part 1: Feb 14, 7 pm at Norte Maar
This special Valentine’s Day for John Cage features international electronic composer Atau Tanaka and Bushwick local sound artist Bubbyfish. READ MORE =>

Evening 2 Part 2: Feb 24, 7 pm
at New York Center for Arts & Media Studies, NYC
Part 2 of Evening 2 featured Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), a group of composer/performers dedicated to the composition and live performance of electronic music, will present an engaging evening of electro-acoustic music by John Driscoll and Doug Van Nort. READ MORE =>

Evening 3 Part 1: Friday, Mar 16, 6:30pm
at New York Center for Arts & Media Studies, NYC
Channeling John Cage’s revolutionary use of radios as instruments, sound artist Tamara Yadao will construct an improvised score for this unique evening celebrating John Cage. In addition to the radios, Yadao will source melodic ornaments, drones, and rhythmic pulses from her Game Boy. This performance / installation will take place at New York Center for Arts and Media Studies as part of the closing reception of the exhibition “What I Know,” curated by Norte Maar’s Director, Jason Andrew. READ MORE =>

Evening 3 Part 2: Tuesday, Mar 27, 6:30pm at Norte Maar (LIVESTREAM)
The composer John Cage wasn’t only known for his alternative ways of making music, he was also known for his writing. For Evening 3 Part 2 of Cage Transmitted, artist and writer Lawrence Swan has prepared a reading of Cage… well not exactly! READ MORE=>

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About E.A.T.
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) is a non-profit service organization that promotes the collaboration between artists and engineers to provide artists with access to new technology and to facilitate their participation in projects dealing with areas of social concern.  E.A.T. was officially launched in 1967 by the engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer and the artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman. These men had previously collaborated, most notably in 1966 when they together organized 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, a series of performance art presentations that incorporated new technology as an integral part of the work. It was at the 9 Evenings that John Cage performed his historic electronic work, Variations VII (1966).