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pan y rosas release phoebe dances with philip by philip corner!

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Philip corner is an: action musician, trombone/alphornist, occasional vocalist, pianist, percussionist, theorist, visual artist. Additionally he is a(n): composer, improvisor, educator, collageur, assembleur, calligrapher. Further, he is a: student of Jahoda, Cowell, Messiaen, Luening, Borduas, Cage, Taubman.

He is also a fluxologist. Listen. Silence. Resonance. Surroundings. Action. Ecstasy.

His new album is an audio/video collection of three collaborations with the dancer Phoebe Neville. Phoebe and Philip began working together in September of 1991 shortly after Phoebe’s surgery for breast cancer. The first two performances took place when she was undergoing radiology/chemotherapy treatment. She completed her chemotherapy treatments one month after the second performance. Ear/Body was performed one week after Philip Corner underwent surgery. What is the interface between Art and Healing?

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philip corner exhibition! 

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It’s OK: Go ahead and hit the art at Rauschenberg Gallery’s new exhibit of work by Glenn Branca and Philip Corner

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hey, if you are going to be in florida between now and october you should go to the rauschenberg gallery because they have an exhibition of philip corner’s original graphic scores! and you can play them there! and he even performed there himself when this opened. and he didn’t tell any of us. so, go! do it!

also, some dude named glenn branca also has some stuff there at the same time. y’know. if you’re into glenn branca.

pan y rosas release gong / orellas: ears in catalunya by philip corner!

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philip corner is an: action musician. trombone/alphornist, occasional vocalist, pianist, percussionist, theorist, visual artist. composer, improvisor, educator, collageur, assembleur, calligrapher. student of jahoda, cowell, messiaen, luening, borduas, cage, taubman. teacher in new york high schools and livingston college. fluxologist, resident composer for judson dance theatre, experimental intermedia foundation. member of: tone roads chamber ensemble. sounds out of silent spaces. gamelan son of lion. his focus is: listen. silence. resonance. surroundings. action. ecstasy.

philip’s third album for pan y rosas is a collection of long form improvisations that he created using gongs and various percussion while visiting catalunya in 1992. these pieces are patient and reflect not only what philip performed but also the spaces in which they were performed. the long moments that happened inside and outside. silent and slow. listen carefully.

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kind words for java improvs by philip corner!

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To get a more complete sense of Corner’s experiences in the Far East, however, the Pana Y Rosas website offers the Java Improvs as three sets of downloads recorded in Surakarta and Jakarta between April 1996 and May 1997. Although roughly contemporaneous with Two In Thailand, these are far more relaxed and exploratory sessions with local musicians – from the gently informal collaborations with percussionist Yasudah using homemade instruments and kitchen utensils to the intense vocalizing experiments with singer and dancer Restu Kusumaningrum. There’s more than three hours of material in these boxes; once again Corner lets the microphones pick up everything that happens and accepts it as part of the performance. Captured here is the whirring of night insects, the voices of performers winding down from a session just before the recording device is switched off, the sounds of water running, and a sudden downpour of rain.

“We are looking back at, and longing forward to, a world of artistic cooperations without artificial boundaries,” Corner said of his time with Fluxus. Even as a name it could perhaps only ever be a starting point, as his remarkably wide-ranging travels would indicate.

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pan y rosas release java improvs by philip corner!

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philip corner is an: action musician. trombone/alphornist, occasional vocalist, pianist, percussionist, theorist, visual artist. composer, improvisor, educator, collageur, assembleur, calligrapher. student of jahoda, cowell, messiaen, luening, borduas, cage, taubman. teacher in new york high schools and livingston college. fluxologist, resident composer for judson dance theatre, experimental intermedia foundation. member of: tone roads chamber ensemble. sounds out of silent spaces. gamelan son of lion. his focus is: listen. silence. resonance. surroundings. action. ecstasy.

philip corner’s second album for pan y rosas, java improvs, is a box set that collects eight improvisations that were recorded over the course of a year during his travels in indonesia. from philip:

Surely what drew me to Indonesia was the gamelan. A connection through years of practice with the New York new-music group “Son Of Lion.” And there I met three marvelous musicians and played with them, drawn together by shared mind-in-the-moment music making – the only way it becomes an “universal language.”

the collection is divided into three boxes and contains six and a half hours of music. the first box consists of two separate performances with percussionist yasudah s. and the dancers susana miranti kroeber and phoebe neville. the second box consists of four performances with the singer and dancer restu kusumaningrum. the third box consists of two performances with the percussionist jalu pratidina and dancer phoebe neville.

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pan y rosas release philip corner for dancers in france

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philip corner is an: action musician. trombone/alphornist, occasional vocalist, pianist, percussionist, theorist, visual artist. composer, improvisor, educator, collageur, assembleur, calligrapher. student of jahoda, cowell, messiaen, luening, borduas, cage, taubman. teacher in new york high schools and livingston college. fluxologist, resident composer for judson dance theatre, experimental intermedia foundation. member of: tone roads chamber ensemble. sounds out of silent spaces. gamelan son of lion. his focus is: listen. silence. resonance. surroundings. action. ecstasy.

for dancers in france is an exploration of the tibetan bowl, balinese cymbals, tam-tam, temple blocks, the forest, rain and the interaction of dancers. four long pieces stretch out over two hours, an exercise in listening and feeling. says corner “the flat gong gives a spectrum of Dense Vibrations which would be called dissonant if they were not the essence of harmony. all you need to do is listen.”