Concert Date(s): TBD Fall 2024
Submission Deadlines:
- Notification of participation: November 1, 2023
- Submission of score: May 15, 2024
How to Submit: email with subject “Iron Giant Collaboration”
Concert Locations: TBD community venues
Instrumentation: Undefined (Read the “What” section below)
Duration: No specific duration.
Who: Iron Giant (Sam Herman, Brett Huffman, Seth Noble, and Justin Wallace)
What: A concert series of scalable compositions to be performed in several different community spaces in Birmingham — such as parks, galleries, and libraries. Scores should be adaptable to completely different settings and instrumentation. Iron Giant primarily function as a quartet but may expand the ensemble for some programs. Some approaches to composition include:
- indeterminate instrumentation, duration, number of performers, and/or octave displacement
- graphic or recipe notation (see Feldman and Oliveros)
- an existing piece that is conducive to adaptation by Iron Giant
- John Cage’s Dream for piano https://youtu.be/p3K_bausi_Q?si=tcaGDkG3uDuVv967 is a work they have arranged.
Examples of compositions follow. Most of the links are performances with a score displayed. There are multiple performances of many of these works on YouTube.
- In C – Terry Riley – https://youtu.be/yNi0bukYRnA?si=GXs-YgEn8_P4tQ_Y
- Stay on It – Julius Eastman
- Worker’s Union for any loud-sounding group of instruments – Louis Andriessen
- Hoketus – Louis Andriessen
- Always Very Soft – John Luther Adams https://youtu.be/hFqfYAfB12I?si=C0LTBQ_c_Bb-AtId
- Music for Pieces of Wood – Steve Reich https://youtu.be/e3tnqECquhk?si=jwrV8ZA5WcJtuIkJ
- The King of Denmark – Morton Feldman https://youtu.be/kuYk2N9dTns?si=G3nJdmgF_blZ5GeR
- Living Room Music – John Cage https://youtu.be/tKrwCkHQRco?si=ol6KmRrPVX_zT_BN
- Rolling Meditation – Pauline Oliveros https://youtu.be/93uMxPr12fc?si=tBHZOmwbJD297ueH
Iron Giant are willing to present a workshop and/or participate in a Zoom call for informal Q&A. They will be available for composers to contact as questions arise.
Before November 1, notify if planning to compose for this project. Please also indicate if you would like to participate in a workshop or call with Iron Giant, both, or neither.
When:
- Concerts to be in Fall of 2024
- BAMA request for participation to end November 1, 2023
- BAMA call for scores to end May 15, 2024
- Workshop/Zoom call TBD, if enough interest