Words and Music

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Here are a few examples of the scores we are looking at.

 

Christian Wolff – Stones

(from Prose Collection, 1968-74) full score available at Frog Peak Music

 

Make sounds with stones, draw sounds out of stones, using a number of sizes
and kinds (and colors); for the most part discretely; sometimes in rapid
sequences. For the most part striking stones with stones, but also stones on
other surfaces (inside the open head of a drum, for instance) or other than
struck (bowed, for instance, or amplified). Do not break anything.

 

 


 

Joseph Kudirka – Beauty and Industry (2007)


 

An excerpt from the Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes (1969)

distributed by the Experimental Music Catalogue



 

Manfred Werder – 2005/1