Program Note:

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15 Simple Etudes for the Beginner is a work in the fluxus tradition co-composed with Joseph Hayes.  It asks the performers to complete sometimes impossible tasks, and the performers must then interpret these instructions however they see fit.

 

 

Score:

 

Fifteen Simple Etudes for the Beginner

To Be Performed Throughout a Lifetime

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i. happen

ii. listen to a photograph.  send the sound into space.

iii. ask the walls a question.  wait for a response.

iv. take down the moon and smash it upon the pavement.

v. scream so loud you drown out the sun.

vi. bake a cake. make it disappear.

   vi(a). bake a cake. unbake it.

vii. break the speed of light.

viii. walk as slowly as possible.

ix. everybody dance now

x. make a lasso.  throw it around a cloud.  ride it for a while.

xi. climb a mountain.  when you reach the summit, keep climbing.

xii. take the moon to a minimart.

xiii. live somewhere else.

xiv. serenade an insect.

xv. return