1994 Opening
Konzept und Projektleitung
Helmi Vent
Composer-Performer
32 Studierende des Instituts für Musik- und Tanzpädagogik, Orff-Institut
Projektort
Theatersaal, Orff-Institut Salzburg
Performance
13.10.1994
Ein Festprojekt zur Studienjahrseröffnung nach Kompositionsideen von John Cage
Abteilung Orff-Institut, Hochschule Mozarteum Salzburg, 1994
About the Ceremony
Opening
Opening Ceremony of the University Year 1994-1995 according to Compositional Ideas by John Cage. Department of Music and Dance Education, Orff-Institute, University Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria). A celebration – performed in English – for the Undergraduates, Graduates and for the students of the Special Course 1994-1995. Salzburg, 13 October 1994
Ceremony Program
- Acoustic Riddle (Solution: O P E N I N G)
- Another "Lecture on Nothing"
- Yodel with Instructions
- Selected Thoughts from "Silence" by John Cage
- Instrumental Improvisation: Prepared French Horn and Prepared Guitar
- Vocal Improvisation: "Travelling" through Salzburg with Voices
Instruction: Follow the indicated and conducted ways on the Salzburg map with your voice - "Dance" from John Cage: "3 Dances" (1945)
Instruction for the audience: Take your chair and dance alltogether to the Cagean "Dance".
Find a common end.