 Jennifer Walshe - score of THIS IS WHY PEOPLE O.D. ON PILLS/AND JUMP FROM THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. Photographer: Eugene Langan |
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Jennifer Walshe
This is why people O.D. on pills/and jump from the Golden Gate Bridge
“Learn to skateboard, however primitively” is how the performance instructions for this remarkable piece begin. Jennifer Walshe doesn’t use conventional means to convey her ideas and the music score – if we can call it that – for this piece about skateboarding is printed on a t-shirt.
In most cases, when composers write their music down they are very precise about what each instrument is to play and when. In this piece, four-fifths of the score is taken up in telling the players what they are to think about before they ever play a note!'
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