Found Sound: is and Improvisation

The programme includes music by John Cage and Erik Satie, along with improvisations on some musical found objects by saxophonist Robert Burke and friends. It features the première of is, a new work for amplified violin and electronics by Mary Finsterer, composer and Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow at Monash University. Performers include: Robert Burke, saxophone; Kenji Fujimura, piano; Hiroki Hoshino, bass; Robert Mercer, drums/percussion; Joe O'Connor, piano; Elizabeth Welsh, violin.

Presented in partnership with Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University

Supported by Yamaha Music Australia

Found Sound

In parallel to the exhibition Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century, MUMA presents a series of live performances in the museum by Australian musicians and sound artists. Inspired by the seminal 'silent piece' by John Cage, 4'33" 1952—footage of which is included in the exhibition—Found Sound picks out some of contemporary music's synergies with the impact of the readymade within visual art.

Curated by Francis E. Parker
Presented in association with Melbourne Festival

^{Image: John Cage performing 4’33” 1952 from the film Sometimes it Works, Sometimes it Doesn’t 1983 (still), courtesy of VRT Archives, Brussels, and the John Cage Trust, New York}