<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Liz Allbee - trumpet</div><div>Matt Ingalls - clarinet</div><div><br></div><div>perform "The Metaphysics of Notation" </div><div> a 70-foot graphic score by Mark Applebaum</div><div><br></div><div>Friday, September 18, Noon</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(39, 39, 39); font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; ">Rowland K. Rebele Gallery and Geballe Family Balcony<br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#272727" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Stanford University</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#272727" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><a href="http://museum.stanford.edu/participate/programs_events_faculty_choice.html">http://museum.stanford.edu/participate/programs_events_faculty_choice.html</a><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(39, 39, 39); font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><strong>The Metaphysics of Notation </strong><br>April 2009 - February 2010 <br>Rowland K. Rebele Gallery and Geballe Family Balcony<br><br>The Faculty Choice series continues this year with a new acoustic twist. Mark Applebaum, associate professor of composition and theory in Stanford’s Department of Music,<br>has composed <em>The Metaphysics of Notation</em> specifically for installation at the Cantor Arts Center. This unique and unusual work will wind its way around the Geballe Family Balcony before reaching its destination in the Rowland K. Rebele Gallery. The score will be on display during museum hours<br>for 11 months and will be performed by musicians—Stanford students, faculty, and visiting artists—on site at midday<br>each Friday.<br><br>Applebaum’s score is a work of visual art teeming with evocative glyphs and densely arranged pictographs. The meaning of these visual figures is deliberately left undefined by the composer; each performer is invited to make a sonic realization of the score by articulating its signs according to a personal interpretation.<br><br>Presentation of <em>The Metaphysics of Notation</em> is a collaboration that represents the Center’s highest intentions to involve Stanford faculty and students in ways meaningful to their own work and studies and to bring their work to the attention of the visiting public. <br><br>Applebaum’s solo, chamber, orchestra, choral, operatic, and electroacoustic music has been performed throughout the<br>Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, with notable premieres at the Darmstadt Summer Sessions. He is active as a jazz pianist and especially as a designer of new, experimental instruments, which he calls “soundsculptures.” These instruments—tangles of junk, found objects, and hardware mounted on electroacoustic soundboards—illustrate Applebaum’s current preoccupation with visually arresting music notation. In this<br>work, it is as if the three-dimensional instruments have been compressed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper, thus engendering the eccentric and peculiar pictographs of the installation.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#272727" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#272727" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font><div>
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