Overview
To celebrate 50 years of PASIC, PAS is organizing an extraordinary musical experience in downtown at beautiful White River State Park. Known for its immersive and environmental nature, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams’ Inuksuit is a concert-length composition for percussion instruments designed to be performed outdoors. This project will be led by PAS Hall of Fame Member and world-renowned percussionist Steven Schick, who commissioned Inuksuit on behalf of the “Roots and Rhizomes” percussion course at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and has led performances throughout the world over the past 15 years.
How to Participate:
This performance opportunity is open to PASIC attendees 18 years and older. Performers will be expected to provide their own instruments, register for PASIC50, and cover all travel/lodging costs associated with attending PASIC. PAS will provide storage space for instruments for the duration of PASIC. In the case of inclement weather, the performance will be moved indoors to the Indiana Convention Center.
What is Inuksuit ?
Each performance of Inuksuit is different. Here is a brief explanation from John Luther Adams’ program notes:
“Inuksuit is inspired by the stone sentinels constructed over the centuries by the Inuit in the windswept expanses of the Arctic. The word “Inuksuit” translates literally: “to act in the capacity of the human”. This work is haunted by the vision of the melting of the polar ice, the rising of the seas, and what may remain of humanity’s presence after the waters recede.
“Inuksuit is a concert-length work for percussion, in which the performers are widely dispersed and move throughout a large, open area. The listeners, too, may move around freely and discover their own individual listening points. This work is intended to expand our awareness of the never-ending music of the world in which we live, transforming seemingly empty space into a more fully experienced place."
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