Thursday May 10, 2014, 4pm AC Institute
Poet Luis H. Francia will recite his poem Listening to John Cage’s 4’33”, and will discuss with curator Midori Yamamura the sound composition The Oracle: Tell Me a Secret (2011) by composer Josué Moreno and artist Gema Álava. In this composition, the sounds created by the audience as they interact with Álava’s installation, are included in the sound environment of the room through an amplifying system and process.