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Time Regained at EMPAC

  • Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) 50 8th Street Troy, NY, 12180 United States (map)

This concert showcases the musical partnership of Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016) and Terry Riley (1935– ) through the lens of time-delay techniques. It features the world premiere performance of Oliveros’s The C(s) for Once (1966) for flutes, voices, trumpets and tape delay system, followed by Riley’s Keyboard Study #1 (1965), Oliveros’s piano solo dedicated to Riley, A Trilling Piece for Terry (2015), and correlated works by James Tenney and J.S. Bach. The program concludes with a performance using the digital version of Oliveros’s Expanded Instrument System (designed by Oliveros, 1965–2016).