Piano Aktivitys as a Disciplind Destruktshun (a piano work’t), (2020) score by Philip Corner that is an iteration of his iconic work Piano Activities (1962). Performed September 6, 2024 at Lyceum Auditorium Santa Fe College by Craig Coleman, Jade Dellinger, Bibbe Hansen, Benedicta Opoku-Mensah, Billie Maciunas, Jack Massing, Sean Miller, Kyle Selley, and Dan Stepp.
Piano Aktivitys… a score written by Philip Corner in 2020 for Sean Miller. Performed September 6, 2024 at Lyceum Auditorium in Gainesville, Florida.
Philip Corner introducing Piano Activitys on September 6, 2024 at Lyceum Auditorium.
Philip Corner composed the original score for Piano Activities in 1962. The second performance of Piano Activities was famously performed by George Maciunas, Emmett Williams, Benjamin Patterson, Dick Higgins, and Alison Knowles during Fluxus Internationale Festpiele Neuester Musik, Hörsaal des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, Germany, September 1, 1962.
Piano Aktivitys as a Disciplind Destruktshun (a piano work’t), (2020) score by Philip Corner. This iterative score was written by Philip Corner in Reggio Emilia, Italy for Sean Miller in June 2020 when Miller was in residence at Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy. The new iteration of Piano Activities was performed at Lyceum Auditorium in Gainesville, Florida on September 5th, 62 years after the Wiesbaden, Germany performance (September 1, 1962).
It is notable that Billie Maciunas PhD participated in Piano Aktivitys. Billie Maciunas is an author, poet, and Fluxus performance artist. She is author of the book The Eve of Fluxus and was married to Fluxus pioneer and coordinator George Maciunas before he passed away in 1978. George Maciunas performed Piano Activities in Wiesbaden 1962. Billie Maciunas has never performed this work. She also worked with Sean Miller as co-curator of Fluxus in the Swamp exhibition.
Bibbe Hansen and Jack Massing performing Piano Aktivities.
Fluxus in the Swamp exhibition featuring a piano work’t (forgeround) and Fluxus artist Ken Friedman’s 88 Events: Scores for the Pianoforte, Scores of Other Kinds, and Scores to Honor Philip Corner (2020). 88 framed scores created by Ken Friedman with design work by Connie Hwang, scores curated in 2022 in honor of Philip Corner’s 88th birthday and 88 keys on the piano. Made as a multiple for inclusion in Sean Miller’s Flux Kits. More about Fluxus in the Swamp exhibition here