Other Minds Festivals ➔ Evelyn Glennie, Stephen Scott, and Stephan Micus who is holding musical instrument, seated at a dinner table, Woodside CA, (2003)
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Identifier
IM.OM.FP.0009.010Dates
2003-03-01/2003-03-31 | createdWork Type
Photographic printImage Class
Group PhotographsImage Series
OM09: Fago B&W PrintsDescription
Evelyn Glennie, Stephen Scott, and Stephan Micus (l to r), seated at a dinner table at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA, prior to the 9th Other Minds Music Festival in March of 2003. Micus is holding up a musical instrument while two more are placed on the table in front of him.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.
Stephen Scott was born in Oregon in 1944 to parents trained in the sciences who were also talented amateur musicians. Early study of music included tutoring in recorder in Bristol, England, clarinet and
saxophone in elementary and secondary school bands, and private study and transcription of jazz recordings in high school. He studied composition at the University of Oregon with Homer Keller, and at Brown University with Gerald Shapiro and Paul Nelson, and traveled to Ghana, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe in 1970 to study African music. In Ghana, Scott met and studied informally with Steve Reich; later he collaborated with Terry Riley, and these two composers became his most significant influences outside jazz. Scott is professor of music at Colorado College. In 1977 Scott founded the Bowed Piano Ensemble, which has toured and broadcast widely in the United States, Europe and Australia.
Born in 1953 in Germany, Stephan Micus made his first journey to the Orient at the age of sixteen. Fascinated by the variety of musical cultures around the world, Micus has traveled in virtually every Asian and European country as well as in Africa and the Americas. Studying with local master musicians, he learned to play numerous traditional instruments, many of them unknown in the Western world. However, Micus's intention is not to play these instruments in a traditional manner, but rather to develop the fresh musical possibilities, which he feels are inherent in them. In many of his compositions, which he performs himself, he combines instruments that have never before been played together. The resulting dialogues further reflect his vision of a trans-cultural music. In addition to his exclusively acoustic instruments Micus also uses his voice, at times—with multitrack recording techniques—creating whole choral pieces by himself.
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Group portraits--2000-2010Men
Women
Composers
Dining rooms
Eating & drinking
Wind instruments
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John Fago / Other MindsPhoto Credits
John FagoRelated Event
Other Minds Festival 9Related place
Woodside (Calif.) (was created at)Related Entities
Fago, JohnGlennie, Evelyn
Scott, Stephen, 1944-2021
Micus, Stephan
Other Minds Festival
Djerassi Resident Artists Program