Electric Slam
Mar 26, 1982
Description:
Electric Slam was a concert that featured trombonist Stuart Dempster and poet David Mahler.Dempster performed two commissioned musical theatre pieces: Luciano Berio’s Sequenza V and Rober Erickson’s General Speech. Mahler presented two tape pieces: Speech With Interpreter and Singing in the Style of the Poetti.
In the second half of the concert, audience members were invited to join in a participatory whistling composition.
Audio documentation available upon request.
Presented as part of the New Musica series.
Western Front is a non-profit
artist-run centre in Vancouver.
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.