Tree Movie
Select a tree* Set up and focus a movie
camera so that the tree fills most of the
picture. Turn on the camera and leave it
on without moving it for any number of
hours. If the camera is about to run out of
film, substitute a camera with fresh film.
The two cameras may be altered in
this way any number of times. Sound
recording equipment may be turned on
simultaneously with the movie cameras.
Beginning at any point in the film, any
length of it may be projected at a showing.
*for the word 'tree', one may substitute
"mountain", sea", "flower", "lake", etc.
January 1961 The Bronx
A Word Event for George Brecht
A man utters any word, preferably one without expletive connotations. He then proceeds to analyze it, 1st, into its successive phonemes; 2nd, into a series of phonemes representable by its successive individual letters, whether or not this series coincides with the 1st series.
After repeating each of these series
alternately a few times, he begins to
permute the members of each series.
After uttering various permutations of
each series alternately several times, he
utters phonemes from both series in
random order, uttering them singly,
combining them into syllables, repeating
them &/or prolonging them ad libitum.
He ends the event by pronouncing one of
these phonemes very carefully.
4 November 1961 THE BRONX
3 Social Projects
Social Project 129 APRIL 1963 THE BRONXFind a way to end unemployment, or find a way for people to live without employment.
Make whichever one you find work.Social project 2
Find a way to end war
Make it work.Find a way to produce everything everybody needs,
And get it to them.
Make it work.
Piano Suite for David Tudor and John
Cage
(any number of persons may participate in
one or more or the movements)
1.....Carefully disassemble a piano.
Do not break any parts or separate
parts joined by gluing or welding
(unless welding apparatus &
experienced welder are available for
the 2nd movement). All parts cut or
cast or forged as one piece must
remain as one piece.
2....Carefully reassemble the piano
3.....Tune the piano
4.....Play something
7 APRIL 1961 THE BRONX
Thanks
a simultaneity for the people
Any person in the room may begin the
action by making any vocal utterance.
Other people may make utterances or be
silent at any time after the beginning.
Utterances may be in any language or
none. They may be [1] sentences, [2]
clauses, [3] phrases, [4] phrase
fragments, [5] groups of unrelated words,
[6] single words [among which may be
names of letters], [7] polysyllabic word
fragments, [8] syllables, [9] phones
[included or not within phonemes of any
languages], [10] any other sounds
produced in the mouth throat, or chest.
Any utterance may be repeated any
number of times or not at all. After a
person makes an utterance and repeats it
or not, s/he may make any utterance,
repeat it or not, again become silent, etc.
People may continue to make utterances
or not until no one wants to make an
utterance or until a predetermined time
limit is reached.
All utterances are free in all respects.
Nonvocal sounds may be produced and
repeated or not in place of utterances.
Anyone may submit an or all elements of
this simultaneity to chance regulation by
any method[s].
December 1960- February 1961