Two3



Category: Musical composition
Dated: July 1991, New York City
Instrumentation: Sho and five Conch-Shells
Duration: Indeterminate (duration of all 10 parts together: 120')
Premiere and performer(s):
Dedicated to: for Mayumi Miyata (?)
Choreography: ---
Published: Edition Peters 67411 © 1991 by Henmar Press
Manuscript: Notes (hologrpah in ink - 1 p.); Sketches of time-brackets (holograph in unidentified hand in ink - 1 p.); Score for One9, printed with Two3 (galley proof with holograph annotations - 24 lv.), all in New York Public Library


The solo Sho part is the work One9. There are 10 pieces of different and flexible lengths. All of them have flexible time-brackets for the Sho part and fixed time-brackets for the Conch-shell part. The shells contain water and by tipping them they might produce audible bubbles. The Conch-shell part contains 10 time-brackets, one for each piece, with a number (referring to one of the shells) and a superscript (giving the intended number of bubbles to be produced).
Either three parts of One9 with or without Two3 may be played with 108.

Sources: Thanks to Glenn Freeman for additional information