{"id":229,"date":"2007-11-15T06:21:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T12:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:59:55","slug":"sal-martirano-lives-on-in-lsga-sal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Sal Martirano lives on in LsGA, SAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

On several occasions in recent years, School for Designing a Society<\/strong> instructor Jeff Glassman<\/strong> has told me about a late Sixties zenith of experimental music and theater at the University of Illinois<\/strong>. For maybe just as long, I have\u00a0enjoyed a series of conversations with John Martirano<\/strong>, a former UIUC library science student who dabbles in data research and design as well as\u00a0the arts. John has also been working on a documentary about his father, one of the catalysts of that era\u00a0remembered by Glassman.<\/p>\n

A highly productive innovator in traditional and electronic composition, Salvatore Martirano<\/a><\/strong> taught at the Experimental Music Studio<\/strong><\/a> of the UIUC School of Music<\/strong> from 1963 until his passing in 1995. One of his creations, the SalMar Construction<\/strong>, was apparently the first machine ever made for the specific purpose of\u00a0generating musical notation\u00a0in real time. Salvatore also worked\u00a0on mixed-media performances that involved live actors, projections, and political commentary, as well as a string of video explorations during the Eighties.<\/p>\n

Practically all of the above will be represented before and during the 11th Annual Martirano Award Concert<\/strong> which will take place tonight, Thursday, November 15, 7:30 p.m.<\/strong>, in the Tryon Festival Theatre<\/strong> of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, UIUC, 500 S. Goodwin, Urbana<\/strong>. Prior to show time, SalMar co-engineer Gregory Danner<\/strong> will demonstrate the 400 pound machine in the KCPA lobby at 7 p.m.<\/strong> Then, the\u00a0first half of the concert proper ($10\/general public, $7\/seniors, $4\/students) will feature the UI New Music Ensemble<\/strong> performing this year’s prize-winning works with their composers in attendance.<\/p>\n

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\"M.C.<\/p>\n

After intermission, John will present an exceprt from his work-in-progress, SAL<\/strong>, and then join M.C. Holloway<\/strong>, Brendan Hanna-Holloway<\/strong>, and Erika Tock<\/strong> for a performance of the 1968 piece “L’s G.A.<\/strong>” Called “terrifying, clear, and a mixed-media classic” by The Village Voice<\/u><\/strong>, this collaboration by Salvatore, Holloway,\u00a0and Ronald Nameth<\/strong> deconstructs Abraham Lincoln<\/strong>‘s Gettysburg Address<\/strong> (hence the title) with sound,\u00a0triple projection 16mm, and on-stage characters including a gas mask-wearing “politico.” Nameth, who has\u00a0worked with such heavyweights as Andy Warhol<\/strong>, John Cage<\/strong>, and William Wegman<\/strong>, also created a 25-minute-long, film-only version of “L’s G.A.<\/strong>” according to a PDF catalog accessible at this film artist database<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Boneyard Jazz Quintet<\/strong>, featuring Salvatore’s widow\u00a0Dorothy Martirano<\/strong>, will play an “Afterglow” set after the concert.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 11th Annual Martirano Award Concert, taking place on Thursday, November 15, 2007, at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, UIUC, Urbana, IL, will revive Salvatore Martirano’s mixed-media piece “L’s G.A.” and feature an excerpt from an upcoming documentary on his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-events","category-the-old-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}