The Society for Music and Minimalism is preparing to host their second international conference on minimalism September 2-6, 2009 in Kansas City, Missouri.  Part of their impressive lineup of performance and lecture includes a performance of Elodie Lauten’s “Adamantine Sonata” by Sarah Cahill during her Friday program.  The original recording of the work was included on her 1983 LP, Piano Works, soon to be reissued on an Unseen Worlds 2CD of Lauten piano works.

Of unique interest also will be the reemergence of piano works by Harold Budd (of ambient Eno fame) and Dennis Johnson (of lengthy La Monte Young fame).  More details on all this can be found at the official website and within some of Kyle Gann’s working blog posts on Arts Journal.

In advance of the piano works retrospective we are working on with Elodie Lauten comes this performance, June 13th, 2009 at Issue Project Room in New York.  Elodie Lauten will perform works of her own selection from the past 25 years including:

Revelation
Adamantine Sonata
Alien Heart
Cat Counterpoint
Sonate Modale
Reason and Blue
Variations on the Orange Cycle
Habanera (mp3)
Tango (mp3)

Please don’t miss this special event.  Performances start at 8pm with Bing and Ruth opening.

Renowned flutist Andrew Bolotowsky will be performing “ORANGE:  Modular Music from the Deus Ex Machina Cycle” by Elodie Lauten as part of his Where are the Women? concert program on Saturday, May 9 at 3:00 PM at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 135 Broadway at the corner of Bedford, right next to the Williamsburg Bridge in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.  Admission is $10.

Other composers on the program include Ruth Crawford Seeger, Jennifer Post, Joyce Suskind, Sorrel Hays, Tui St. George Tucker, Deborah Sandival Thurlow, Lenore Von Stein, Beth Anderson, Lynn Wilson, Judith Sainte Croix and Anne Tardos.

Find a copy of the now out-of-print Deus Ex Machina Cycle on 2CD via Amazon.