“In C” by Terry Riley + Instrumental Flash Mob at Monument Circle

(RESCHEDULED FROM 9/13)

Organized by Indianapolis musician Danny Marquis — one of this year’s SPARK on the Circle artists in residence — this improvisational performance of “In C” is free for everyone to hear and enjoy at the Circle. 

If you’d like to play along, join us by 3:30 p.m. at the SPARK park and bring your instrument.  We’ll provide sheet music for Riley’s 1964 composition that directs any number of musicians to repeat a series of 53 melodic fragments in a guided improvisation. Don’t worry, Danny will show you how it works. 

Why “In C?” Why perform this piece now in a time where artificial music is becoming more and more proficient and sufficient for so many use cases? Because “In C” demands the humanity of players to choose and listen. To interact in the moment and notice what emerges. Because a computer can render these lines, but only a live performance can breathe vitality into them.

Marquis will also lead the assembly in spontaneous celebration and joyous sound making to commemorate the end of Spark

In C — live at SPARK on the Circle, Saturday, Sept. 28 at 4 p.m.