this timer indicates the amount of time that should be spent on each page. once the timer finishes, momentarily hold/sustain the last note you just played as instructed by the middle box.
“o.” is an evolving experiment: a performance ‘situation’ that has been created for music to exist in the present. as performers you will interact with this web-based “app”. immersing yourself into an ongoing sonic experience, responding to a growing number of visual stimuli, exploring and unlocking five stages of sound through time. this version of “o.” has been arranged for concert use. contact elizabeth for access to an alternative version suitable for ensembles interested in exploring indefinite forms/structures.
by elizabeth jigalin
at the end of each stage of the work, one member of the ensemble is to cue the ensemble. this cue indicates that you are to immediately proceed to the next page by tapping on the white circle.
o.
wait for cue.
this box instructs the way the final note of the subsequent page is to be sustained/held.
notes.
practice.
wait for cue, then tap to begin.
welcome.
tap at anytime within the time limit.
pitch
HIGH
as soft as possible.
obnoxious, loud, stabs of sound
dynamics
all attacks are to be as short as possible.
LOW
ff
2
or
1
f
1
REPEAT IF NEEDED
1. (trill) rapidly change between two notes. 2. then change one of those notes. 3. then change both of those notes
3
moment of SILENCE
short moment of SILENCE
1. very slowly slide/move between a very high tone and very low tone. 2.quickly slide between high tones and low tones. 3. very slowly slide/move between a very low tone and very high tone.
do this quietly:
do this (incredibly) quietly:
begin from nothing:
2
1. sustain a tone so distant,gradual crescendo
mf
softly.
do this fairly loudly:
then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm.
a little tap at the window.
-mp.
as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead.
musical, innumerable, universal.
followed by a plentiful falling sound.
became liquid, loud drumming.
as though some missile had struck it.
!
don’t wait for cue!
as soft as possible
FINAL.