Showing 17 results for: Indeterminacy
Stewart Lee/Indeterminacy review – ‘riffling through Cage’s subconscious’ - March 2014 The Guardian - By Alfred Hickling - March 30th, 2014
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool: Eastern poetry, mushrooms and Schoenberg’s composition classes emerged as recurring themes in Lee’s randomly ordered readings from John Cage’s anthology Comedian, Observer commentator and experimental-music fan Stewart Lee has a great line about the branch of Nando’s that displaced his favourite jazz club: “They ought to introduce a new menu which, through…
Usurp Chance Tour With Stewart Lee, Komedia, Brighton - March 2014 The Brighton Argus - By Kirsty Levett - March 26th, 2014
In Komedia’s laidback underground North Laine lair, tables on the stage were covered in toys. A child’s Speak & Spell, modified stylophones, a Barbie strapped to a sitar and a biscuit tin, just a few of the curios on display, were a colourful aesthetic introduction to the Conspirators of Pleasure. Promising to introduce us to…
Stewart Lee meets John Cage at Kings Place - September 2012 BachTrack.com - By Paul Kilbey - September 27th, 2012
They say you should never meet your heroes. But they don’t say anything about them meeting each other, so I had very little idea of what to expect at Kings Place on Monday night when comedian Stewart Lee performed John Cage. In the event, this was a hugely enjoyable short recital, though I do wonder…
A Series of Small Events: Indeterminacy at the Battersea Arts Centre - September 2012 One Stop Arts - By Kate Mason - September 26th, 2012
The elements of chance and improvisation mean that no two performances of Indeterminacy will ever be the same – each time we are witnessing something perfectly unique and strange. Featuring a variety of unusual instruments, and a highly unorthodox use of children’s toys, Alan Tomlinson, Stewart Lee, Tania Chen and Steve Beresford experiment with the…
Stewart Lee presents John Cage’s Indeterminacy, Cafe OTO - September 2012 The Arts Desk - By Joe Muggs - September 26th, 2012
John Cage is funny: this much we know. The deadpan prankster at the heart of 20th-century artistic experimentalism was always about the inadvertent punchline, the chuckle that comes from unexpected disjunction, the relief that comes from reminders of the absurdity of reality, as much as he was ever about any engagement with progress, technology, the…