{"id":3143,"date":"2021-07-21T09:58:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3143"},"modified":"2021-09-25T05:48:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T09:48:25","slug":"bodies-electric","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/event\/bodies-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies Electric Celebrates the Music of Edgard Var\u00e8se, and Frank Zappa and the Psychedelic Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bodies Electric is an electric guitar quartet founded by John Chang, who assembled a group of players devoted to experimentation and improvisation. Charles Wuorinen's Electric Quartet<\/em> (2015) was written for Chang and Bodies Electric, a psychedelic electronic medium with pungent rock overtones. Among the composers whose work they have performed: Frank Zappa.<\/p>\n

In addition to Var\u00e8se and Zappa, featured composers in tonight\u2019s concert include David Claman,<\/span> Kanghee Choi<\/span>, Frank Brickle<\/span>, Terry Champlin<\/span>, David Loeb\u00a0<\/span>, Kyle Miller<\/span>, Paula Matthusen<\/span>, Gillian Welch, John Chang<\/span> and William Anderson<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Zappa was a self-taught composer whose work embraced rock, pop, jazz, chamber, orchestral, fusion, and musique concr\u00e8te<\/em>. He first heard about Edgard Var\u00e8se, the father of electronic music, in a Look<\/em> magazine article and began to seek out his music, eventually spotting The Complete Works of Edgard Var\u00e8se, Volume One<\/em> in a sale bin \u2013 it had been used, unsuccessfully, to demonstrate hi-fi. On his fifteenth birthday, Zappa used $5 from his mother to call the composer: \u201cI figured Mr Var\u00e8se lived in New York because the record was made in New York (and because he was so weird, he would live in Greenwich Village). I got New York Information, and sure enough, he was in the phone book.\u201d Zappa never did meet the man he described as \u201cmy idol\u201d and treasured a letter he received from him in 1957, written in \u201cvery tiny scientific-looking script\u201d.<\/p>\n

Var\u00e8se died in 1965 and his house at 188 Sullivan Street is marked by a plaque. Not long after, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention began a residency at the Garrick Theater, 152 Bleecker Street, above the Caf\u00e9 au Go-Go\u2026 opened to rival the Bitter End.<\/p>\n

Performers<\/h4>\n