Play

Christian Wolff

Play, make sounds, in short bursts, clear in outline for the most part: quiet: two or three times moves towards as loud as possible, but as soon as you cannot hear yourself or another player stop directly. Allow various spaces between playing (2, 5 seconds, indefinite): sometimes overlap events. One, two, three, four or five times play a long sound or complex or sequence of sounds. Sometimes play independently, sometimes by coordinating: with other players (when they start or stop or while they play or when they move) or a player should play (start or, with long sounds start and stop or just stop) at a signal (or within 2 or 5 seconds of a signal) over which he has no control (does not know when it will come). At some point or throughout use electricity.

 

From Prose Collection, 1968. © 1973 by Christian Wolff. Used by permission.