Music in Text

Next Saturday, the eighth of November, sees the launch of my new collection of fifty text scores, Music in Text.

The event will take place at Rönnells in Stockholm, from 2pm until 4pm.

There will be performances of scores from the book by…

AINA MYRSTENER

THE GREAT LEARNING ORCHESTRA

BRUS/BODÉN

BOBBY BARRY

Solo for a DVD player

‘Digital Versatile Music’ (2014)

for a dvd player

With the power on stand-by, stroke a telephone pick-up coil across the top of a standard domestic dvd player. Move in slow, graceful arcs, picking out ‘sweet spots’ where the most resonant noises can be found and focus on these areas to generate a steady, throbbing hum.

Turn the machine on. Make another sweep with the pick-up coil to see what new noises you can eke out of it.

Insert a disc and press play. Skip chapters and fast-forward. Keep sweeping for sounds.

Eject the disc. Insert another (does your player accept Bluray?). Repeat.

Finally, power off.