• Great Learning - Limited Edition Box

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  This edition of the Great Learning (Paragraph 7) has 3 versions of the composition by Cornelius Cardew:
  
  -an interactive, software based version
  -a video version
  -an installation version
  
  The edition comes in a bamboo box containing a custom USB stick (with software & video recordings) and a set of 11 double-sided colour-printed cards. **NOTE** The software can be played on any Macintosh computer.
  
  NOTES ON THE EDITION
  This box by Optophono features three different realisations of 'Paragraph 7', the last of seven paragraphs or movements that together comprise the English composer Cornelius Cardew's 1969-70 opus The Great Learning. Like the other movements in The Great Learning, Paragraph 7 is scored for untrained performers (here the indication is for 'any number of untrained voices') and is based on the writings of Confucius. The composition is notated using only verbal instructions, and was originally recorded by the Scratch Orchestra, an ensemble whose ethos of inclusion and accessibility within musical practice profoundly influenced experimental musical traditions of the mid-20th century.
  
  Realising 'Paragraph 7' reveals the composition to be as much a social enterprise as it is a musical one. [...] [Full notes available with edition]
  
  CREDITS
  The Great Learning, Paragraph 7 (1969)
  by Cornelius Cardew
  
  •Interactive Software Version (2014)
  By Gascia Ouzounian and Christopher Haworth
  Featuring Bird On A Wire (choir)
  Software design by Christopher Haworth
  Concept and visual design by Gascia Ouzounian
  Recorded by Gerard Gormley, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, 2014
  
  Installation* (2010) and Video (2014)
  By Gascia Ouzounian and Conan McIvor
  Featuring Bird On A Wire (choir)
  Directed by Gascia Ouzounian
  Edited by Conan McIvor
  Filmed by Conan McIvor and Stuart Sloan
  Recorded by Chris Corrigan,
  Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, 2010
  
  *The Installation version was originally
  exhibited as a room-size multichannel
  audio-and-video installation
  at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast,
  as part of the ‘Arrivals’ exhibit curated
  by Ciara Hickey, Summer 2010.
  
  BIRD ON A WIRE
  Isobel Anderson,
  Rachel Anne Coulter,
  John D’Arcy, Emily Dedakis,
  Matt Green, Claire Hall,
  Ciara Hickey, Clara Kane,
  Meabh Meir, Katharine Phillipa,
  Caroline Pugh, Matthew Rodger,
  Ricki O’Rawe, Gascia Ouzounian
  
  Cards by Tom Hughes
  Cover and logo design by Ryan O'Reilly
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