<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 14pt;">You may or you may not be</span></i></b><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><b class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ricardo Arias, Samuel Holloway, Marinos Koutsomichalis, </span></b><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">Matthew Shlomowitz, </span></b><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">Rogelio Sosa, Jonathan Zorn</span></b><div class=""><span class=""><div class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br class=""></span></div>8 March 2015, 5.00pm</span><div class=""><span class="">Ex-Galerie Barbazanges, 26 Avenue du Président Roosevelt, Paris.</span><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">Musique d’Ameublement</span></i><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"> (Furniture Music) is perhaps one of Erik Satie’s most bold compositions, a seminal work for a wide range of modern and contemporary music styles and theories, sound art and design. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">To mark the 95th anniversary of </span><i class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">Musique d’Ameublement</span></i><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">, Modelab invited six international sound artists and composers for a reflection on the evolution of functions of music within a specific space. This dialogue, translated into sound compositions, </span><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">will be available through portable devices on March 8, 2015, at the ex-Galerie Barbazanges in Paris, </span><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">where the work was premiered in 1920.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">While time is the canvas for the composer, a specific device or site containing music also becomes a living sculpture revealed only by the audience. In this manner, the space for which the music is thought for becomes also an instrument, as Satie playfully envisioned in <i class="">Musique d’Ameublement</i>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">By celebrating Satie's life and work, "You may or you may not be" will also look into the evolving essence of music and its relations with public space, understood in the same manner </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">as a recording: “a limited set of sounds that can nonetheless have a variable relationship in the environment in which they are played” (Pisaro: 2009).</span></p><span lang="EN-NZ" class="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"><a href="http://www.modelab.info/" class="">www.modelab.info</a></span> </div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B2B7V9Z2i9HISkxZVmQ0aW1HcU0&revid=0B2B7V9Z2i9HIUFF3OUJtOFFmWVBma3dUQXFuVFRoLzlXVmhFPQ" height="72" width="150" class=""><br class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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