About
1687, Inc. was founded in 1994 to produce concerts and recordings of music and text by Lenore Von Stein with groups of musicians she organized. Each concert had a name that reflected a general theme or area of study and used work by several composers, including Lenore Von Stein. The music and text were improvised and composed. In the late 1990’s electronic music, chance elements, film and visual art were added to this mix; in 2001 scholars were added. Lenore began to call the concerts collages and “living paintings.” Each concert’s theme was more specifically defined and more carefully explored. The focus from 2003 to, as of this writing, mid-2005 is on developing this collage form with a core group of musicians. For instance, craft issues like seamless transitions between improvised and composed work, and more purely artistic ones like the interaction of idea, sensation and emotion to simultaneously inhabit distinct perspectives.