Game Music rehearsal series

Game Music has a long and interesting history, including a New Music Co-op concert in 2008 which spawned a still-running John Zorn Cobra ensemble called Mongoose.

Would you be interested in performing and composing Game Music in an evening-length group performance supported by the COTFG?

Game Music is rule-based and follows any sort of instructions found in games and other play-based activity. Red Light Green Light but with music? Uno cards used to prompt musicians? Flash cards directing group improvisations? Races to see who can play a musical passage the fastest? The possibilities are endless.

Some historical examples:

• Musical dice attributed to Mozart

• Duchamp’s toy train with bins to collect dropped musical notes.

• Duchamp and Cage’s chess game on electronic chessboard 

• Any number of Fluxus and Scratch orchestra pieces

• Xenakis’ Strategie (1962) and Kagel’s Match (1963)

• John Zorn’s Cobra (1984)

• Children’s clapping games

This project needs radical creativity and is open to everyone of every background and musical experience. We invite you to become a co-organizer, composer and performer. 

We will provide warm up games and a workshop environment to develop games collaboratively. Bring your own games or just come to play!

The first meeting will be at Museum of Human Achievement on Friday, April 7th evening between 7pm and 9pm. All are welcome and for an eventual performance we plan to focus on games created by people in the Austin, Tx community.

The June meetings will take place at Crashbox on Bolm Rd.
Thursday - June 15th
Thursday - June 22nd