Presenter's Page for Abbie & William's Spring Tour 2009

This website contains links for just about everything you will need for the presentation of Abbie and William's concerts and masterclasess.

• Our cell phone numbers while on tour.

• Techncial requirements for the stage setup.

• Concert program for printing.

• Photocopiable publicity flier.

• Text blurb for publicity about the concert.

• Press photos.

• Video clips of Cybeline (and other information.)

• Sound files from "Music for the End of Time

(A still from the video of Cybeline.)

Our Cell Phone Numbers While On Tour

Abbie   575 621 7372

William 575 621 5928

Our Technical Requirements for the Concert

• We will need six hours in the hall to load in, setup our quadraphonic PA system, video projection equipment, and do the lighting.  

• For lighting, we will need three small spots (ellipsoidals), one about 3 feet across, one about 18 inches across, and a larger one about 3 feet in diameter. They should descend at a steep angle (ca. 60 degrees,) but not so steep that there are shadows under Abbie's brows and nose. Source 4s are the best light if they are available.  

• William controls the light and sound for the performance.  The lighting board should be positioned inside the hall at the back so that he can control it along with our own sound equipment.  If that is not possible, there must be a technician in the lighting booth with an intercom headset so that he can give cues during the performance.  In that case, the technician will also need to have a 30 minute rehearsal with us.  

• We will need to know when the lighting technician can be available during our setup to help us focus the lights. 

• We will need a table about six feet long at the back of the hall to set our equipment on.

• Load out takes about an hour.  We will need two strong helpers for the load in and out.  Each should take about 30 to 45 minutes.    

We will thus need answers to the following questions:

1. Are the three lights available?

2. Will the table be available?
3. Can the lighting board be setup at the back of the hall where my husband will be with our computer equipment? 

4.  If not, will the lighting person be able to rehearse the cues with us and be in the booth during the performance?
4. When will the technician be there to focus the three lights (and if necessary, rehearse the cues with us?)

5.  Will we have two strong helpers for the load-in and load-out?

Answers to these questions should be sent to William Osborne at this email address:

william@osborne-conant.org

The Program for Our Concert

You can download the program for our concerts here.  We provide PDF files.  Also included are Word files if you would like to edit the program.  Please put the pages in the right order and photocopy as many as needed. Instructions are included with the document.  (If you have trouble with this document or download, please contact us as soon as possible.)

Program for Cybeline and Music for the End of Time: (PDF)  (Word document.) 

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If your institution is presenting only Music for the End of Time download this program:

Only Music for the End of Time Program (PDF)  (Word document.)

Fliers/Posters for Our Concert

Click here to download a flier in color for our concert.  Click here to download a flier in black and white.  (Please be patient while they download.) They are Microsoft Word documents.  Type the concert's date and location in at the bottom,  photocopy and distribute as needed.  (If you cannot download the document correctly, please contact us as soon as possible.  We can also email a PDF copy with your specific info already typed in.)  

Press Blurb About Our Program

The information in the blurbs below can be altered as needed.  If you like, the information in these blurbs can be included on the backside of the above listed flier.  (If you would like longer, more formal descriptions of the works click here.)

Cybeline
(A music theater work for performance-artist, glove controller, trombone, video, and quadraphonic surround sound.)

Abbie Conant -- performance-artist, text and drawings
William Osborne -- music, video and direction

Cybeline is a music theater work about a cyborg trying to be a talk show host to prove she is human.  It is about nature, virtual reality, biotechnology, and the mass media -- about finding the heart and poetry in technology as it also contemplates its horrors. We explore our notion that the creation of a cyborg does not depend on the metalization of the body, but on the programmability of the mind.  We live in a wired together, prosthetic world of global “cyberbia“ where our minds are programmed by the mass media.

"Music for the End of Time" 

(For trombone and quadraphonic tape based on the the Book of Revelation.)

Abbie Conant -- trombone

William Osborne -- compostion

The electronic music of the surround sound creates a sonic environment in which the trombone is the central figure. The work explores all aspects of the trombone, ranging from expressions of "divine wrath," to wild rhythmic unisons with the Four Horsemen, to the gentlest, meditative lyricism.

There is something for everyone in this highly dynamic, varied and colorful concert presented by one of the world's best know trombonists and performance artists!

Press Photos

Click here for a link to numerous press photos of Abbie and William.  Click here for still images from the video used for Cybeline. (Scroll down as necessary.)

Video/Sound Files of Cybeline

Click here to find video files and still images from Cybeline.  (Scroll down on the page as necessary.)

Click here to find sound files from "Music for the End of Time."

Our Tour Itinerary

 These are the dates of the concerts.  Abbie usually gives a masterclass the day after the performance.

               * masterclass only