THOUGHT AS DESIGN | PENSAMENTO ENQUANTO DESIGN

experimentadesign 2001

arrabida | pensamento enquanto design | thought as design

lisbon 2001

laura kuhn

brief bio

Laura Kuhn enjoys a lively career as writer, performer, scholar, arts administrator, and, most recently, director. She worked during her graduate school years in the early 1980s with the Russian-born infant terrible of musicology Nicolas Slonimsky, becoming successor editor upon his death in 1996 of his acclaimed music dictionaries Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians and Music Since 1900. From 1986 she worked with John Cage in New York on a variety of large-scale projects, including his Europeras 1 & 2 for the Frankfurt Opera, for which, among much else, she designed costumes and created stage actions. This work became the subject of her 1992 doctoral dissertation from the University of California at Los Angeles, John Cage's Europeras 1 & 2: The Musical Means of Revolution. Upon Cage's death in 1992, along with Cage's long-time friends and associates Merce Cunningham, Anne d'Harnoncourt, and David Vaughan, she founded the John Cage Trust, which she continues to direct. Current projects for the John Cage Trust under her direction include a CD-ROM of sampled piano preparations from Cage's Sonatas & Interludes (1946-48) for use by MIDI keyboard musicians, and the development of online realization capabilities for Cage's late "number" pieces. Most recently, Kuhn conceived the first full-scale theatrical realization of John Cage's 1982 radio play, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet, which she will direct during its worldwide 2001-2002 tour.

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Laura Kuhn enjoys a lively career as writer, performer, scholar, arts administrator, and, most recently, director. She worked during her graduate school years in the early 1980s with the Russian-born infant terrible of musicology Nicolas Slonimsky, becoming successor editor upon his death in 1996 of his acclaimed music dictionaries Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians and Music Since 1900. From 1986 she worked with John Cage in New York on a variety of large-scale projects, including his Europeras 1 & 2 for the Frankfurt Opera, for which, among much else, she designed costumes and created stage actions. This work became the subject of her 1992 doctoral dissertation from the University of California at Los Angeles, John Cage's Europeras 1 & 2: The Musical Means of Revolution. Upon Cage's death in 1992, along with Cage's long-time friends and associates Merce Cunningham, Anne d'Harnoncourt, and David Vaughan, she founded the John Cage Trust, which she continues to direct. Current projects for the John Cage Trust under her direction include a CD-ROM of sampled piano preparations from Cage's Sonatas & Interludes (1946-48) for use by MIDI keyboard musicians, and the development of online realization capabilities for Cage's late "number" pieces. Most recently, Kuhn conceived the first full-scale theatrical realization of John Cage's 1982 radio play, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet, which she will direct during its worldwide 2001-2002 tour.
		EXPERIMENTADESIGN
		ASA Art and Technology