From River to River's website: "KUN, a composition by Wendy Mae Chambers, is scored for 64 baby grand toy pianos and 64 toy pianists performing music composed utilizing the I Ching. Each toy piano represents one of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching and the 2nd hexagram of the I Ching is named KUN. From 4:30PM until sunset at 8:31PM, 64 pianists play 64 baby grand toy pianos pianos arranged in yin/yang pairs, covering the expanse of Pier 15 and Pier 16 along The East River Waterfront Esplanade. The listener is invited to wander at will through the various piano stations, experiencing the composition in an almost infinite variety of configurations." List of 64 performers, courtesy of rivertorivernyc.com 01 Frank Tyl 02 Vicky Chow 03 Diego Tornelli 04 Shelley Robinson 05 Rita Rovenskaya 06 Mescal Wilson 07 Meg Zervoulis 08 Beata Moon 09 Randall Eng, Jeanne Ross 10 Kathleen Hulser 11 Tristan McKay 12 Hannah Kim, Josh Frieling 13 Renee Briggs 14 Grigory Smirnov 15 Thomas Osuga 16 Annie Jeng 17 Ruben Piirainen 18 Lorna Krier 19 David Friend 20 Carol Flamm Reingold 21 Kelly Lin 22 Edward David 23 Anne Rainwater 24 Eunbi Kim 25 Kate Campbell 26 Christopher McGinnis 27 Lucy Kalantari 28 Alexa Babakhananian 29 Allison Tartalia 30 Jade Conlee 31 Walter Aparicio 32 Sugar Vendil 33 Pokie Huang 34 Michele "Burdie" Burdiak 35 Jeff Lankov, Pokie Huang 36 Jonathan Koe, Phyllis Chen 37 Khanh Pham 38 Karen Yair, Pamela Martinez 39 Maria Grieco 40 Domenica Fossati 41 Moriah Trenk 42 Matt Poon 43 Missy Mazzoli 44 Isidora Vladic 45 Kiai Kim 46 Simona Premazzi 47 Paul Conrad 48 Hugo Andre, Wendy Mae Chambers 49 Asami Tamura 50 Angelica Olstad 51 Birgit Matzerhat 52 Ilya Kazantsev 53 Leaha Maria Villarreal 54 Mary Kouyoumdjian 55 Matt Evans 56 Carson Moody 57 Joseph Pehrson 58 Alexa Dexa (Alexandra Lugten) 59 Jeff Van Nostrand 60 Katherine S. Min 61 Graham Wolff 62 HyeRee Cha 63 Jad Bernardo 64 Cathy Muller For more information about KUN -- 64 Toy Pianos and Map with Toy Piano Locations, please visit www.64toypianos.com. _____________________________________________________ I CARE IF YOU LISTEN is a blog about Contemporary Classical Music (some people also say New Music), design, architecture, technology, and the idea of craftsmanship. It is was founded and is curated by Thomas Deneuville, a French-born composer living in New York City, with the help of wonderful contributors in the US and the UK ■ www.icareifyoulisten.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/icareifulisten Facebook: www.facebook.com/icareifyoulisten tumblr: icareifyoulisten.tumblr.com Google+: tinyurl.com/icaregplus Video + Editing: Thomas Deneuville Opening animation: Daniel Thompson at DTWebart (www.dtwebart.com) © 2012 I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

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