Instances of Silence



Category: Musical composition
Dated: 1982
Instrumentation: Any number of cassette-players and tapes
Duration:
Premiere and performer(s): March 16, 1982
Dedicated to:
Choreography: Merce Cunningham: Trails (1982) and Mélange (1999)
Published: ---
Manuscript:


The musicians distribute a collection of different cassette-tapes, each with a recording of sounds of the environment, and play those tapes in a pre-determined order, but with an improvised starting point. Once a cassette is playing, dynamics and tapespeed are not altered until the end of the performance.

Source: Paul van Emmerik: Thema's en Variaties