DURATIONS: An Evening with Terre Thaemlitz [Live Piano] + Conversation with Ciarán Finlayson

Presented in collaboration with Triple Canopy at Roulette Intermedium.

The performance will be followed by a conversation with Triple Canopy contributing editor Ciarán Finlayson, who will speak with Thaemlitz about her music as well as her criticism, which often takes up the defects of a culture industry that offers artists “exposure” instead of wages.

Starting in 2024, Terre Thaemlitz began a new series of durational piano solo performances. Unlike Thaemlitz's computer-composed Rubato Series digital piano concerts of the past, these current performances are acoustic and played on a grand piano (180 cm or larger). Each show consists of a new composition using improvisational systems, with occasional prepared-piano techniques. While sonically more dynamic than Thaemlitz's notorious 32-hour-long acoustic piano piece, *Meditation on Wage Labor and the Death of the Album* (2012), this new series continues the minimalist, ambient, and neo-expressionist piano playing developed over the past three decades in Thaemlitz's various electroacoustic and house albums.

The first performance of this series took place in June 2024, as a close to Trajal Harrell's five-year stint as resident choreographer at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. Both Harrell and Thaemlitz have their own histories within the US voguing ball scene, and both have continually examined the tensions between culturally minor and major audio movements. On that night, Harrell gave the final performance of her acclaimed group ch