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Notes
to the performers:
This piece should be synchronized using mechanical timing devices, such
as stopwatches. In a recent performance, each performer had his or her
own stopwatch and one performer was designated to give a “downbeat,”
which marked the synchronization of all the stopwatches at 0:00 seconds
into the piece. I recommend a similar practice for all performances of
this piece. This piece works best when it is programmed towards the end
of a concert, or towards the end of a section of a concert. All performers
who have performed previously in the concert should perform in this piece.
0:00-0:05:
Get prepared.
0:05-0:11: Make the last sound that you remember making or hearing.
0:11-0:19: Make the quietest sound that you remember making or hearing.
0:19-0:39: Remember a point over the course of the concert when you were
making or hearing made many sounds simultaneously. Make these sounds.
0:39-0:48: Make the loudest sound that you remember making or hearing.
0:48-1:02: Make a sound that you made or heard for the first time over
the course of this concert.
1:02-1:09: Silence, stillness (as much as is possible)
1:09-1:23: Make whatever sounds you were making or hearing made immediately
after the piece that finished before this piece.
1:23-1:27: Make the highest pitched sound that you remember making or
hearing.
1:27-1:42: Silence, stillness.
1:42-1:51: Make the highest pitched sound that you remember making or
hearing.
1:51-2:11: Make whatever sounds you were making or hearing at the beginning
of the first piece on the program.
2:11-2:41: Make the lowest pitched sound that you remember making or hearing.
2:41-2:55: Make a sound that you have made or heard over the course of
this concert that you make or hear frequently; that is ordinary, everyday,
quotidian.
2:55-3:03: Silence, stillness.
3:03-3:13: Make the first sound that you made or heard at the very beginning
of this piece.
3:13-3:53: Make a sound that you never have made before, even over the
course of this concert.
3:53-4:15: Silence, stillness.
4:15-4:25: Make the first sound that you remember making or hearing over
the course of this concert.
4:25-5:00: Make the quietest sound that you remember making or hearing.
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