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Score for Ensemble for Three Voices (October 2007, 3:00, Flash)
Ensemble for Three Voices Performance Excerpt (October 2007, mp3, 1:33, 1.1 MB)
Concept: A transcription of a recording made in the Philadelphia ICA's sound art exhibit Ensemble, curated by Christian Marclay.

Execution: This was written as a score to be performed with two fellow students, whose names appear in the Flash animation.

Text Score: Tender Buttons (October 2007, html text, 56 KB)
Text Score Generator Source Code (October 2007, plain text, 4 KB)
Concept: Score for typing performance.

Execution: I wrote a small program in Java that takes a .txt file input and converts it to full character-by-character typing instructions. The text linked above was created from Project Gutenberg's plain text copy of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons.

Her Duh excerpt (December 2007, mp3, 2:35, 2.4 MB)
Concept: Remote digital control of a group reading aloud.

Execution: Fifteen fellow students gathered in the Philadelphia ICA with copies of John Cage's Silence. Using Nicecast, I broadcast Frances Marie-Uitti's recording of "Lecture on Nothing," to which the readers were instructed to read along. I then cut off the readers' individual streams one at a time over the course of the 45-minute text. When a reader's audio feed was cut, he or she was instructed to follow his or her nearest neighbor in the gallery. Thus, what began as a fairly synchronized performance slid into near cacophony. The Christian Marclay-curated sound art exhibit Ensemble can be heard in the background.