The ongoing exhibition “John Cage: Lecture on the Weather” at Frith Street Gallery in London will end soon on December 17, 2016. This is your last opportunity to check out the unique presentation of a still prescient work by seminal American composer, artist, and writer John Cage at the gallery.Conceived originally as a work for either radio or stage production in 1975, “Lecture on the Weather” is presented in the Frith Street Gallery in a new installation based on materials captured from the 2007 performance at Bard College in New York. For this exhibition, John Cage drew excerpts from Henry David Thoreau’s classic texts, which is then cast into a score using I Ching-derived chance operations. Each score is intermittently graced with chance-determined fragments of Thoreau’s nature drawings, interpreted as music, in the manner of graphic notation. In the beginning, John Cage delivers a soft polemic prelude, and when the readings and musical realization commence, a slowly escalating weather soundscape created by Maryanne Amacher begins with it. The work concludes with a film by Luis Frangella: Thoreau’s elemental nature drawing in white on black, simulating flashes of lightings on a dark stormy night, with all its elements — speech, music, film, lighting, and weather — creating an exhilarating sensory experience. Complementing the installation will be a number of John Cage’s early prints, which are also inspired by Thoreau, including works from the series 17 Drawings by Thoreau, “Score Without Parts,” “Signals” and others.The exhibition is on view at Frith Street Gallery, 17-18 Golden Square, London W1F 9JJ, UK.For details, visit: http://www.frithstreetgallery.com/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the exhibition
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