Chris Mann (American Premiere)

Performing Arts Center Arena Theater, April 7^th, 7:30pm

Composer working in Compositional Linguistics, he worked with Machine for Making Sense until moving to New York in the mid-nineties. Solo performances include Paris Autumn, Ars Electronica, and the Berliner Festspiele.

His texts have been engaged by the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Herbert Brun, David Dunn, Gary Hill, Johnny Klimek, Annea Lockwood, and Larry Polansky.

Commissions:National Public Radio, BBC, Berliner Festspiele, Radio France, Ars Electronica, John Cage, Composers Forum, Paris Autumn Festival, Australian Biennale, Radio Telefis Eirann, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Revue Telematique d’Art Contemporain, Dance Works, Dance Exchange, Lingua, Art et Lectures, Abraxas, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, la revue parlee, V2, Australian Network for Art and Technology, Goethe Institut, Shire of Healesville, Anzart, Christian Television Association, Commission for the Future, International Synergy, ABC Staff Union, Australia Council, Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, Festival de la Batie, Sprach Ton Art, Brisbane Biennial, Taklos Festival, ORF, Urban Aboriginal, American Society for Cybernetics, bobeobi, Thomas Buckner, Adelaide Festival, Experimenta, Gary Hill, Interpretations, Astra Choir

Recordings and Publications:‘Words & Classes’, Outback Press, Melbourne 78.
‘doin 2s’, phon’m, Melbourne 82 and Artelec, Paris 83
‘Word for word’, Christine, New York 83.
‘Subjective beats metaphor’, NMA, Melbourne 85.
‘LA DE DA’, collective effort, Melbourne 85.
‘The Rationales’, NMA/post neo, Melbourne 86.
‘da-dum’, Glass Box/NMA, Melbourne 87.
‘of course’, collective effort, Melbourne 88.
‘Tuesday’, collective effort, Melbourne 89.
‘Birth of Peace’, NMA, Melbourne 90.
t ‘38’37” A Machine for Making Sense’, NMA, Melbourne 90.
‘Chris Mann and Grammar’, Lingua, Iowa City 91.
‘On second thoughts’, Tall Poppies, Sydney 94 and OO Discs, New York 94.
‘Chris Mann and the Impediments’, OO Discs, New York 95.
‘62 Composers on Chris Mann’, Frog Peak, Hannover 97.
‘Talk is cheap’, split, Sydney 97.
‘Working hypothesis’, Station Hill, Barrytown 98.
‘Consciousness’, split, Sydney 99.
‘chris mann and the use’, Lovely Music, New York 01.

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All events are free and open to the Public.

Parking: For the evening performances, parking is available anywhere on campus after 7 pm. Evening performances will be held in the Performing Arts Center Arena Theater. For daytime events, parking is available in Lots K and M on the St. Cloud State University campus. Free shuttle buses will be provided from K Lot to within one short block of the festival venue. Day events will be held in the Atwood Little Theater.
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