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Comma Performance HistorySeptember 5, 1997
AtlantiCAGE 9785
Tawes Fine Arts Building
College Park, MD
Several pieces by members of Comma together,
though not yet as Comma
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September 23, 1997
UMBC Recording Studio
Catonsville, MD
Comma w/ Kathy Burdette, engineer
Three Body Words
(Zitt)
Approaches and Departures (Pauline Oliveros)
Two Improvisations
(Comma)
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October 19th, 1997
Ulrich Recital Hall, University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Songs of a Sad Autumn
(John Polifrone)
Matt
Approaches and Departures
(Pauline Oliveros)
Sevenroughs
(Davis)
Solo for Voice 52 (Aria No. 2)
(John Cage)
Matt
Solo for Voice 27 (Cheap Imitation No. 5)
(John Cage)
Matt
The Year Begins to be Ripe
(John Cage)
Matt
Once a lady was here
(Paul Bowles)
Matt
Lonesome Man
(Paul Bowles)
Matt
Sugar in the Cane
(Paul Bowles)
Matt
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November 19th, 1997
Labyrinth at The Church of the Epiphany
Washington, DC
Angelorum
(Bickley)
Free Improv
(Comma)
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December 11th, 1997
Speakeasy Studios
Baltimore, MD
First CD Recording Session
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December 13th 1997
Interzone Music
Frederick, MD
Free Improv
(Comma)
Sound in the Time of Cholera
(Davis)
[MP3]
Angelorum
(Bickley)
Approaches and Departures
(Zitt)
Sevenroughs
(Davis)
Chants Operations I
(Comma)
Carved with Breath
(Zitt)
Songbooks
(John Cage)
Free Improv
(Comma)
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December 18th, 1997
Speakeasy Studios
Baltimore, MD
Second CD Recording Session
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January 10th, 1998
The Red Room
Baltimore, MD
Opening Improvisation
(Comma)
Sound in the Time of Cholera
(Davis)
Angelorum (five movements, including "In Paradisum", "Chorus Angelorum", and "Sariel")
(Bickley)
Approaches and Departures
(Pauline Oliveros)
Sevenroughs
(Davis)
Miracolo
(Zitt)
Songbooks
(John Cage)
Carved with Breath (five movments, including "Halleluyah Ketjak")
(Zitt)
Closing Improv
(Comma and John Dierker)
Comma and John Dierker
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January 17th, 1998
Highwire Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
Opening Improvisation
(Comma)
Sound in the Time of Cholera
(Davis)
Angelorum (five movements, including "In Paradisum", "Chorus Angelorum", and "Sariel")
(Bickley)
Approaches and Departures
(Pauline Oliveros)
Sevenroughs
(Davis)
Miracolo
(Zitt)
Songbooks
(John Cage)
Carved with Breath (five movments, including "Halleluyah Ketjak")
(Zitt)
Closing Improv
(Comma and John Dierker)
Comma and John Dierker
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February 1st, 1998
Leaf Through Books
Rockville, MD
Shekhinah reading
(Zitt)
Zitt
Improvisation
(Comma)
Miracolo
(Zitt)
Bringing Forth the Voice
(Zitt)
Halleluyah Ketjak
(Zitt)
Sound in the Time of Cholera
(Davis)
Angelorum excerpts
(Bickley)
Songbooks
(John Cage)
Sevenroughs
(Davis)
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February 24th, 1998
(voices) CD Release Event
Ulrich Recital hall, University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Layered Cages
(John Cage)
Only
(Morton Feldman)
Davis
Counting
(Tom Johnson)
Zitt
Approaches and Departures
(Pauline Oliveros)
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March 14th 1998
Meditation Sounding
Church of St. Stephen & the Incarnation
Washington, DC
Comma w/ Norman Lowrey and workshop participants
Long-tone improvisation
(Comma)
The Witness
(Pauline Oliveros)
Comma and Norman Lowrey
angelorum
(Bickley)
Comma, Norman Lowrey, and
workshop participants
Carved with Breath
(Zitt)
Comma, Norman Lowrey, and
workshop participants
riverdream through us
(Norman Lowrey)
Comma, Norman Lowrey, and
workshop participants
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April 18th, 1998
"Cooks Smell Time"
Ruthless Grip Arts Project
Washington, DC
site specific performances including the texts:
To do it.
(Beverly Chello)
APPENDIXES
(Matt)
Dear Perreaoult Daniels
(Heather Fuller)
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May 17th, 1998
The Bayou
Washington, DC
Sekhu (from Sevenroughs)
(Davis)
Free High Energy Improv
(Comma)
Bringing Forth the Voice
(Zitt)
Threads and Facets
(Zitt)
Halleluyah Ketjak
(Zitt)
Sound in the Time of Cholera
(Davis)
Somagwaza
(Traditional, arr. Comma)
Songbooks
(John Cage)
Courduroy Piano Dream
(Comma)
Free Ambient Electronic Improv
(Comma)
Locust Souls
(Zitt)
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June 20th, 1998
Pentagonal Blueprints
Ruthless Grip Arts Project
Washington, DC
Comma w/ Linh Kauffman (soprano), Caroline
Lowndes Smith (violin)
Prelude for 5
(Davis)
[MP3]
Comma, Linh Kauffman, Caroline
Lowndes Smith
Sidereal Breathing
(Davis)
[MP3]
Comma, Linh Kauffman, Caroline
Lowndes Smith
Amitabha
(Zitt)
[MP3]
Comma, Linh Kauffman, Caroline
Lowndes Smith
The Witness
(Pauline Oliveros)
Comma, Linh Kauffman, Caroline
Lowndes Smith
Ghost Dervish Beach
(Zitt)
[MP3]
Comma, Linh Kauffman, Caroline
Lowndes Smith
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June 26th, 1998
Drones, Trances, and Dreamings
Ruthless Grip Arts Project
Washington, DC
Comma w/ Dan Joseph
Lunations 4
(Bickley)
Bickley
Lead Me In
(Zitt)
Zitt
Dulcimer Flight
(Dan Joseph)
Dan Joseph
Renga After Kunzu
(Douglas Cohen)
Davis, Bickley
Free Improv
(Comma and Dan Joseph)
Comma and Dan Joseph
Appalachian Summer
(Davis)
[MP3]
Comma and Dan Joseph
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July 18th, 1998
sonic arts muses words
Ruthless Grip Arts Project
Washington, DC
Comma w/ Toshi Makihara
Becoming the Space [Free Improv]
(Comma and Toshi Makihara)
Comma and Toshi Makihara
Babblelawn (polylinguistics ii)
(Davis)
Explortions
(Davis)
Comma and Toshi Makihara
"...on a broad, white feather from a stork's wing..."
(Zitt)
Gray Code Improv
(Comma and Toshi Makihara)
Comma and Toshi Makihara
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August 10th, 1998
WMUC Studio
College Park, MD
Radio Interview and performance
Farbenstimmen
(Abbie Conant)
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August 15th, 1998
Brend and Blend
Ruthless Grip Arts Project
Washington, DC
Comma w/ John Berndt
Opening [Free Improv]
Farbenstimmen
(Abbie Conant)
Contraummy
(Davis)
The Unspeakable Column
(John Berndt)
John Berndt
Closing [Free Improv]
(Comma and John Berndt))
Comma and John Berndt
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September 13, 1998
at the 1998 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Third St Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
Davis, Zitt, Linh Kaufmann
Savitri Opening
(Gustav Holst)
Davis, Zitt, Linh Kaufmann
Sidereal Breathing
(Davis)
Davis, Zitt, Linh Kaufmann
Layered Cages
(John Cage)
Theatre Piece
Linh Kaufmann
One 7
Zitt
Eight Whiskus, Aria No. 2, Solos for Voice
Davis
The Witness
(Pauline Oliveros)
Davis, Zitt, Linh Kaufmann
Twelve Shadow Boxes
(Davis)
Davis, Linh Kaufmann
Angelorum
(Bickley)
Davis, Zitt, Linh Kaufmann
Carved with Breath
(Zitt)
Davis, Zitt, Linh Kaufmann
Awake
(Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Davis, Zitt, Linh Kaufmann
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September 20, 1998
Cycles of Light, Masses of Time: Stockhausen at 70
Art/Sociology Building Atrium, University of Maryland
Various Stockhausen works (we need a definitive list)
Davis, Zitt, Linh Kaufmann, Caroline Lowndes Smith,
Dawn Culbertson, Kathy (last name?)
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November 7th 1998
DCCD
Washington, DC
Houses Long and Thin Along the Road
(Bickley)
Zitt Set:
(Zitt)
Locust Souls
Ramah
Eastern Market
Layered Cages
(John Cage)
Writing Through Finnegans Wake IV
Zitt
Variations I
Bickley
Eight Whiskus
Davis
Gray Code Improv (Comma)
Streaming
(Comma)
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November 8th 1998
Downtown Music Gallery
New York, NY
Houses Long and Thin Along the Road
(Bickley)
Zitt Set:
(Zitt)
Locust Souls
Ramah
Eastern Market
Layered Cages
(John Cage)
Writing Through Finnegans Wake IV
Zitt
Variations I
Bickley
Eight Whiskus
Davis
Gray Code Improv
(Comma)
Streaming
(Comma)
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November 9th 1998
Drew University
Madison, NJ
Houses Long and Thin Along the Road
(Bickley)
[MP3]
Zitt Set:
(Zitt)
Locust Souls
[MP3]
Ramah
[MP3]
Eastern Market
[MP3]
Awake
(Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Comma with Norman Lowrey and students
Rock Creek
(Davis)
Gray Code Improv
(Comma)
[MP3
(excerpt)]
Streaming
(Comma)
[MP3
(excerpt)]
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December 5th 1998
Ulrich Recital Hall, University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Comma w/ Linh Kauffman
Houses Long and Thin Along the Road
(Bickley)
Zitt Set
(Zitt)
Locust Souls
Wall of Gulls
Eastern Market
Layered Cages:
(John Cage)
Writing Through Finnegans Wake IV
Zitt
Variations I
Bickley
Solos for Voice
Davis
Theatre Piece
Linh Kaufmann
Rock Creek
(Davis)
Gray Code Improv
(Comma and Linh Kauffman)
Comma and Linh Kaufmann
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December 30th 1998
(members of) Comma (and friends)
33 Degrees
Austin, TX
Joseph Zitt, Thomas Bickley, Josh Ronsen, Tim Wood,
Thom the World Poet, John Snyder, Bobby Corbell
Layered Cages
(John Cage)
Variations I
Bickley, Snyder
Writing through Finnegans Wake
Zitt
0'00"
Ronsen
Basho
(Bickley)
Bickley
Lead Me In
(Zitt)
Zitt
Issa
(Bickley)
Bickley
Candles for Sarah
(Zitt)
[MP3]
Bickley, Zitt, Corbell, Ronsen,
Snyder, World Poet, Wood
Dystopia/Utopia
(Thom the World Poet)
Bickley, Zitt, Ronsen,
Snyder, World Poet, Wood
JuxtaProz
(Tim Wood)
Bickley, Zitt, Corbell,
Snyder, World Poet, Wood
Tab Stop Return
(Tim Wood)
Bickley, Zitt,
Snyder, World Poet, Wood
Gregorian Chance
(John Snyder)
Bickley, Snyder
For Three...
(Josh Ronsen)
Bickley, Zitt, Ronsen,
Wood
Group Improv
[MP3]
Bickley, Zitt, Ronsen,
Snyder, World Poet, Wood
Halleluyah Ketjak
(Zitt)
Bickley, Zitt, Ronsen,
Snyder, World Poet, Wood
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January 9, 1999
WMUC Studio
College Park, MD
Recording Session
Comma (plus 3) w/Dawn Culbertson, Linh Kauffman, Caroline Lowndes Smith
feldMorph
(Zitt) Five minute version
feldMorph
(Zitt) 45 minute version
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January 17th, 1999
DCAC
Washington, DC
Five minute improv (incorporating text from
Gregory Severance's 'point of severance')
(Comma)
[MP3]
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January 26th, 1999
Joe's Studio
Washington, DC
Videotaping of improv video "Cat Food Lenses" for poetryvideo.com
(Comma)
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February 30th, 1999
unCAGEd III
Levering Hall, Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Thomas Bickley, Joseph Zitt, Dawn Culbertson,
Leroy Keltner, James Semark, Audrey Babcock, Gavin Ferrell, Kevin Winkler
ear for EAR
Culbertson (cantor),
Bickley, Zitt, Keltner, Semark (antiphon)
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Babcock (voice),
Ferrell (closed piano)
A Flower
Babcock (voice),
Ferrell (closed piano)
Experiences II
Zitt (voice)
In a Landscape
Ferrell (Marimba)
Solo for Voice I
Culbertson (voice)
Layered Cages
Writing Through Finnegans Wake (Part 4)
Zitt (voice)
Sculptures Musicales
Bickley, Babcock, Culbertson,
Ferrell,Keltner,Semark, Winkler (sound sculptures)
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February 26, 1999
John Cage's Theatre Piece
Experimental Theatre, Tawes Fine Arts Building
College Park, MD
Comma with Caroline Smith (organizer),
David Freivogel, Rita Singer, Anna Buck Smith
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February 27, 1999
John Cage's Theatre Piece
Experimental Theatre, Tawes Fine Arts Building
College Park, MD
Comma with Caroline Smith (organizer),
David Freivogel, Rita Singer, Anna Buck Smith
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February 28, 1999
John Cage's Theatre Piece
Experimental Theatre, Tawes Fine Arts Building
College Park, MD
Comma with Caroline Smith (organizer),
David Freivogel, Rita Singer, Anna Buck Smith
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April 7, 1999
Emergent Music Festival
The Velvet Lounge
Washington, DC
Comma
ear for EAR
(John Cage)
Locust Souls
(Zitt)
Eastern Market
(Zitt)
Word Processing
(Comma)
[MP3]
Wall of Gulls
(Zitt)
[MP3]
Houses Long and Thin Along the Road
(Bickley)
[MP3]
Improv: Instruments->Voices->Instruments
(Comma)
[MP3]
Sevenroughs (ba, ka, khaibit, sekhem)
(Davis)
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April 24, 1999
EarthSounding
Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation
Washington, DC
Comma, Norman Lowrey (masks),
Ronald Stolk (organ and conductor),
Choir of St. Stephen and the Incarnation
Soundcheck: Quintet Improvisation
(Comma, Stolk, Lowrey)
[MP3]
Comma, Stolk, Lowrey
Veni Creator Spiritus
(Bickley)
Choir, Stolk, Comma
Quintet Improvisation
(Comma, Stolk, Lowrey)
Comma, Stolk, Lowrey
Simultaneous Performances:
In Celebration of the Earth
(Pauline Oliveros)
Bickley, Lowrey
Welcome, Elijah
(Zitt)
Zitt, Davis, Stolk, Choir
Alleluia
(Gregorian Chant)
Choir, Stolk, Comma
Spirit Talk
(Lowrey)
All
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Tuesday, May 18, 1999
Recorded Rehearsal
Tom's Studio
Washington, DC
Comma
Friday, May 21, 1999, 8 PM
the former Manhattan Laundry building
1348 - 1346 Florida Avenue, NW.
Washington, DC
Comma (primarily acoustic/vocal)
Mountains
(Zitt)
p(a)s(i)v
(Davis)
Improv: Instruments->Voices->Instruments
(Comma)
Houses Long and Thin Along the Road
(Bickley)
Improv: Words
(Comma)
Sevenroughs (ba, ka, khaibit, sekhem)
(Davis)
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Saturday, May 22, 1999, 6 PM
the former Manhattan Laundry building
1348 - 1346 Florida Avenue, NW.
Washington, DC
Comma (primarily
electroacoustic/instrumental).
Prelude for 3
(Davis)
Improv: Spasmodic Energy
(Comma)
riverbroadening
(Davis)
Improv: The Snare from Elsewhere
(Comma)
Ghost Dervish Beach
(Zitt)
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Wednesday, June 9, 1999, 7 PM
the former Manhattan Laundry building
1348 - 1346 Florida Avenue, NW.
Washington, DC
Thomas Bickley, with Joseph Zitt on two pieces.
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Saturday, June 19, 1999, 7 PM
the former Manhattan Laundry building
1348 - 1346 Florida Avenue, NW.
Washington, DC
Comma
Prelude for 3
(Davis)
Comma
Joseph Zitt
Houses Long and Thin Along the Road
(Bickley)
Comma
Threebird
(Davis)
Matthew Ross Davis: Prerecorded Minidisk
Trio Improvisation
(Comma)
[MP3]
Comma
Vocal Improvisation
(Zitt)
Joseph Zitt
Ghost Dervish Beach
(Zitt)
Comma
Concrete Improvisation
(Bickley)
Thomas Bickley
Comma
Vocal Improvisation
(Davis)
Matthew Ross Davis
Only
(Morton Feldman)
Matthew Ross Davis
Amitabha
(Zitt)
Comma
Sidereal Breathing
(Davis)
Comma
Vocal Improvisation: Word Processing
(Comma)
Comma
riverbroadening
(Davis)
Comma
Instrumental Improvisation
(Davis)
Matthew Ross Davis
The Listening Room
(Bickley)
Comma
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Saturday, July 31, 1999, 7 PM
Deep Listening™ Benefit for the Pauline Oliveros Foundation
Plan B
Santa Fe, NM
"An haiku may be edited without his author may know it."
[released on the CD Gusty Winds May Exist]
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Monday, October 25, 1999, 9 PM
Fringe Night
Alexandria, VA
Comma and
zitt/matis (together)
Set One [MP3s]
Set Two [MP3s]
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Thursday, October 28, 1999, 2:30 PM
Guest Lecture
Oakland, CA
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Thursday, October 28, 1999, 8 PM
The Luggage Store Gallery
San Francisco, CA
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Friday, October 29, 1999, 8 PM
The Passageway
First Unitarian Universalist Church
San Francisco, CA
Maryliz Smith, Abbie Conant, Tom Bickley, and Nancy Beckman
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Tuesday, November 2, 1999, 8 PM
Benefit Performance for the Pauline Oliveros Foundation
Fremont, CA
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Saturday, November 20, 1999, 7:30 PM
Spontaneous Musical Arts Workshop
Washington, DC
Comma
Free improvisation (3 minutes)
If Not Now..
(Zitt)
Gray Code I: Vocal
Gray Code II: Vocal, with workshop participants
Gray Code III: Electroacoustic
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Sunday, December 5, 1999, 9:00 PM
Fringe Night
Arlington, VA
Gray Code
If Not Now..
(Zitt)
Boggle
(Matis)
Free Improvisation
(Gray Code)
MozOpera
(Davis)
Gray Code
(Gray Code)
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Sunday, December 12, 1999, 1:00 PM
Afternoon of Changes: The Music of John Cage
The Contemporary Museum
Baltimore, MD
(see individual pieces for performers)
One12 (1992)
(Cage)
Matthew Ross Davis
Song Books (1970)
(Cage)
Matthew Ross Davis
Tom Bickley
But What About The Noise Of Crumpling Paper
Which He Used To Do In Order To Paint The Series
Of "Papiers Froisses" Or Tearing Up Paper
To Make "Papiers Dechires?" Arp Was
Stimulated By Water (Sea, Lake, And
Flowing Waters Like Rivers), Forests. (1985)
(Cage)
Tom Goldstein, director
Paul Neidhardt
Mike Castor
Writing through Finnegans Wake, Part IV (1977)
(Cage)
Joe Zitt
Variations II (1961)
(Cage)
Tom Goldstein
Thomas Moore
Branches (1976)
(Cage)
Dawn Culbertson
Suzanne Lieberson Heifetz
Leroy Keltner
Scott Larson
Solo for Voice I (1958)
(Cage)
Dawn Culbertson
Four6 (1992)
(Cage)
Tom Bickley
Matthew Ross Davis
Brian Fending
Joe Zitt
Radio Music (1956)
(Cage)
Dawn Culbertson
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Friday, January 14, 2000, 8:00 PM
Washington, DC
Gray Code
If Not Now..
(Zitt)
Herbivore
(Matis)
MozOpera
(Davis)
Gray Code
(Gray Code)
Ghost Dervish Beach
(Zitt)
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Saturday, March 11, 2000, 8:00 PM
Washington, DC
Peter Kowald with Tom Bickley, F. Vattel Cherry, Brian Fending, Alan Lewine,
Jonathan Matis, and Joseph Zitt
Kowald
Kowald/Zitt
Kowald/Matis
Kowald/Fending
Kowald/Bickley
Kowald/Cherry/Lewine
Everyone
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Thursday, April 20, 2000, 8:00 PM
Washington, DC
Gray Code (Bickley, Davis, Fending, Matis, Zitt) with Alan Lewine
Gray Code for Five
(Gray Code)
(Other works?)
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Saturday, April 29, 2000, 8:00 PM
Tom Bickley's Studio
Washington, DC
Gray Code (Bickley, Fending, Matis, Zitt) with workshoppers
Gray Code (several different versions)
(Gray Code)
If Not Now...
(Zitt)
Friday, May 19, 2000, 8:00 PM
Washington, DC
Gray Code (Bickley, Davis, Fending, Matis, Zitt) with Alan Lewine
Gray Code for Five
(Gray Code)
(Other works?)
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Wednesday, May 3, 2000, 8:00 PM
Movements Gallery
Austin, TX
Joseph Zitt, Thom the World Poet, Justin Fellenz
Several verbal improvisations
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Friday, May 12, 2000, 8:00 PM
MECA
Houston, TX
Pauline Oliveros, Tom Bickley, Susan Alcorn, David Dove
(works?)
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Friday, May 19, 2000, 8:00 PM
Washington, DC
Gray Code (Bickley, Matis, Zitt)
(Works?)
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Saturday, May 20, 2000, 9:00 PM
Arlington, VA
Gray Code (Bickley, Davis, Fending, Matis, Zitt)
(Works?)
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Sunday, May 21, 2000, 4:00 PM
Frankford Arts Festival
Philadelphia, PA
Gray Code (Bickley, Davis, Fending, Matis, Zitt)
If Not Now...
(Zitt)
Gray Code for Five
(Gray Code)
Closing Improvisation
(Gray Code)
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