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Wes Students Support Yale Grad Student Union in “The Fast Against Slow”

UNITE HERE 217 and Wesleyan Students at Yale for the start of the occupation/strike

Wesleyan students from United Student/Labor Action Coalition and Wesleyan Democratic Socialists joined Yale graduate school employees from UNITE HERE Local 33 on Tuesday evening to kick off a hunger strike meant to pressure Yale administration into entering contract negotiations with the newly-formed union. Eight graduate school employees from Local 33 have committed to an indefinite hunger strike being called “The Fast Against Slow.”

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New Works for Mantra Percussion

mantra_eventFrom the CFA:

Renowned percussion ensemble Mantra Percussion premieres new works written for them by Wesleyan graduate student composers.

Date: Sunday, December 6
Time: 5-6:30 PM
Place: Memorial Chapel

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Recital: Jason Brogan—The View from Nowhere

From CFA Staffer Andrew Chatfield:

This concert by graduate music student Jason Brogan links together thought, noise, and improvisation in an attempt to investigate the self as being just a process: a “no one” that could be constructed or manipulated. Through the defamiliarization of neurobiological, psychological, and artistic-performative parameters (as “opera”) via amplification and digital processing, and the objectification of this experience via live documentation and recording/playback on tape, subjectivity is disassociated from selfhood and reconsidered as experimental music.

Date: Tuesday, November 18th
Time: 9:00pm
Place: World Music Hall (CFA)

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Recital: Dina Maccabee – Self-Same Sounds

An invitation courtesy of CFA staffer Andrew Chatfield:

Graduate music student Dina Maccabee presents new vocal pieces exploring the properties of the voice in dialogue with its many mediated reproductions, featuring student vocal group The Mixolydians. Alongside her own work, Ms. Maccabee will perform late twentieth-century pieces that challenge conventional narrative orientations of the voice. The significant influences of music by Meredith Monk, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and Joan La Barbara are juxtaposed with homages to Mieskuoro Huutajat, the Finnish men’s shouting choir, early work by John Cage, and Meredith Willson’s musical theater innovations.

Date: Tuesday, November 11
Time: 9:00pm
Place: World Music Hall (CFA)

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Concert: New Works by Graduate Student Composers

Nathan Friedman MA ’14 invites you to an exciting evening of new musical works by Wesleyan graduate student composers:

Featuring new pieces by:
Peter Blasser MA ’15
Hallie Blejewski MA ’14
Jason Brogan MA ’15
Sam Dickey MA ’14
Daniel Fishkin MA ’15
Nathan Friedman MA ’14
Gabriel Kastelle MA ’14
Jasmine Lovell-Smith MA ’14
Dina Maccabee MA ’15
Cristohper Ramos Flores MA ’14
Sean Sonderegger MA ’14

Performed by loadbang:
Carlos Cordeiro, clarinets
Jeffrey Gavett, baritone
Andy Kozar, trumpet, flugelhorn
Will Lang, trombone

Date: Monday, December 9
Time: 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Place: CFA Hall
Cost: Free!
Facebook: Event page

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Toneburst Laptop Ensemble – Live on WESU

The disembodied telepresence of Tobias Butler ’13 (aka tobobo from the hub) rises again:

This friday at 5 Eastern, a subset of Wesleyan’s Toneburst Laptop Ensemble will be taking over (some of) the airwaves on WESU 88.1 Middletown’s Wild Wild Live hosted by Mickey Capper and Rachie Weisberg. We will be using the very same computers most of us use to write essays and browse Facebook to create evocative, evolving musical works.

This will be no ordinary radio broadcast—a little over halfway through, you’ll be invited to visit http://t.obi.as/ using Google Chrome on your own computer to participate in a composition that will involve your personal machine as one voice in a potentially worldwide laptop choir. There will be a few guerrilla performances around the Wesleyan campus and in Middletown where many computers will be participating simultaneously—so grab your friends and laptops and go to a public place where you can sit and listen for a bit.

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