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Concert by Percussionist Allen Otte

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Music as Image and Metaphor

CONCERT
Allen Otte

Saturday, March 11 – 4pm
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A concert by percussionist and composer Allen Otte in conjunction with our current exhibition: MUSIC AS IMAGE AND METAPHOR

Master percussionist Allen Otte (Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame, Blackearth Percussion Group and The Percussion Group Cincinnati) presents a sixty-minute program of works ranging from radical reinterpretations of medieval classics to new works written for or by him.

The concert will expand themes explored in the exhibition and push them in unexpected directions. The centerpiece of the concert, "Composition Machine No. 1," by Mark Applebaum, is an exercise in music-visual feedback. In the course of playing an existing trace of a prior performance, the percussionist is asked to create a new 3’ x 6’ graphical score, which is subsequently played to conclude the performance. One couldn't ask for a more ingenious encapsulation of the questions raised by Music as Image and Metaphor.
 

Allen Otte – percussionist and composer
Program: (all works written by or for Allen Otte)

Time and Truth (2019)
Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. text, Michael Kowalski; setting, Allen Otte
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . found text and setting, Otte
Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . text, Richard Howe; setting, John Lane

I fall asleep on a jagged rock (2023) . . .. . Rachel Walker  (first performance)

Composition Machine No 1 (2014) . . . . .  . Mark Applebaum
In three parts:
Interpret the previous score you drew. Create a new one.
Interpret the new one.

A Drum is Not a Gun (2022) . . . . . . . . . . . . text and setting, Allen Otte

Two Medieval Pieces
Sestina: Altaforte . . . . . .  Bertran de Born, ca. 1180 / Ezra Pound, 1911 / Otte, 2022
Cum Ereburint . . . . . . . . . Hildegard von Bingen, 1152 / Otte, 2023