Agenda

Felix's Machines

With his music installations, Felix Thorn makes a concerted effort to build further on John Cage’s experiments involving the prepared piano and the role of mechanics in the production of sound. Felix’s machines are hybrids between musical instruments and kinetic sculptures which generate light, sound and movement. Thorn will ‘play’ his construction three different times during the weekend in a live performance, translating rhythmic audio structures into a dreamlike three-dimensional show.

4 september / 11:00 & 15:30 / Felix’s Machines / SCHUNCK* lobby / free admission 

Photo: Katie Parish

This activity is part of the programme:

John Cage, Of what is and what might have been

Of what is and what might have been is the title of the programme to be presented on the occasion of the exhibition The Anarchy of Silence - John Cage and Experimental Art in SCHUNCK* Heerlen which will open on 3 September 2010. As a musician, writer and philosopher, Cage strived to push back the boundaries of the accepted, not only in music, but in other art forms as well. This approach formed the cornerstone of a philosophical exploration of an aesthetic free from conventions, taste, and traditional ways of looking at subjectivity. In a series of concerts, installations, readings, lectures and performances, various contemporary artists provide their interpretation of Cage’s oeuvre: they present what is there, and what it might have been.