Other Minds Festivals ➔ Ge Gan-ru and Evelyn Glennie, head and shoulders portrait, seated at dinner table, facing each other, (2003)
Still image
Identifier
IM.OM.FP.0009.006Dates
2003-03-01/2003-03-31 | createdWork Type
Photographic printImage Class
Group PhotographsImage Series
OM09: Fago B&W PrintsDescription
Ge Gan-ru and Evelyn Glennie (l to r), in discussion at the dinner table, during their participation in the 9th Other Minds Music Festival, in March of 2003.Ge Gan-ru, born in 1954 in Shanghai, has been called China’s first avant-garde composer. He received degrees in both violin and composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he also served as Assistant Professor of Composition. In 1982, when China was still largely unfamiliar with 20th century Western music, he wrote a controversial piece called Yi feng for solo cello which used unorthodox extended techniques to produce timbres simulating Chinese percussive instruments. In 1983, he was awarded a fellowship to attend Columbia University where he studied with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky.
Ge has composed music for theater, dance, and documentary and feature films as well as concert music. Ge’s music reflects his deep interest in amalgamating Eastern and Western musical aesthetics.
Evelyn Glennie, a native of Scotland, has carved a new place for solo percussion in the realm of classical music, and has melded traditions and instrumentation from around the world to create new ways of performing and, indeed, of hearing percussion as music in its own right. Because she has defied convention by crossing the traditionally rigid boundaries of formal, folkloric, and popular musical forms, this uncommonly versatile musician has managed to draw new audiences to the classical world. In the context of such a vibrant and illustrious career, the fact that Glennie has been profoundly deaf since the age of twelve seems, at first, amazing. But for her, it is virtually irrelevant. Hearing is basically a specialized form of touch and sound is simply vibrating air which the ear picks up and converts to electrical signals which are then interpreted in the brain. Glennie can identify the notes according to the vibrations she feels through her feet and body.
Genres & Subjects
Group portraits--2000-2010Men
Women
Composers
Musicians
Discussion
Image Ownership
John Fago / Other MindsPhoto Credits
John FagoRelated Event
Other Minds Festival 9Related place
Woodside (Calif.) (was created at)Related Entities
Fago, JohnGe, Gan-Ru, 1954-
Glennie, Evelyn
Other Minds Festival