Child of Tree performance by Hayes Bunch

818 Hwy 64 Business,Hayesville NC 28904

28 May, 2023

Description

Have you ever heard a cactus make music? Join us to experience cacti, as well as other natural materials, create improvisational music. The event is free to the public but registration is required as space is limited. This 8 minute work was created by John Cage in 1975. The score consists solely of performance instructions as to how to select 10 instruments via I Ching chance operations. All instruments are made of plant matter, or be themselves plant materials (e.g. leaves from trees, branches etc.) Cage instructs: "Using a stopwatch the soloist improvises, clarifying the time structure by means of the instruments. This improvisation is the performance.” Hayes Bunch will be performing "Child of Tree". He is Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music and conducts the Young Harris College Concert and Jazz Bands, teaches Percussion Class and Advanced Conducting for music education majors, and Applied Major Percussion lessons. Bunch performed as a percussionist under the baton of Leonard Slatkin on the Grammy Award Winning recording of William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and Experience (Naxos), internationally at the Beijing Modern Music Festival at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, with the Fountain City Brass Band (MO), Temple Symphony Orchestra and Temple Jazz Orchestra (TX), Plymouth Symphony (MI), and with artists Randy Brecker, Allen Vizzuti, Gordon Goodwin, Bill Watrous, among others.