While the Philadelphia Museum of Art gears up for its massive John Cage-centric Dancing Around the Bride exhibit later this month, local multimedia arts org <fidget> is covering some of the same expansive terrain in a weekend-long festival of newly created offerings blending music, performance and dance. Coinciding with the ongoing celebration of Cage’s centenary, the event opens with a performance of scores from Cage’s two-volume Song Books by <fidget> co-curators Megan Bridge and Peter Price and several guest experimentalists. On Saturday, performances by Price, Mikronesia, Melinda Faylor and Rob Haskins will blend the electric and acoustic with performances for piano, electronics and Disklavier (Yamaha’s solenoid-based player piano).
Fri.-Sat., Oct. 5-6, $5-$25, thefidget space, 1714 N. Mascher St., thefidget.org.
