MUSIC IN PIECES - printed DIY scores for greyish noise

Tear the placemate along the lines in the given order.

Music in Pieces

The score is the instrument is the score.
The audience is the performer is the audience.

“Music in 24 (30, 64,...) Pieces” is part of the series “Music in Pieces”. The series is created around the idea of a self-performing audience, where the individual listening experience is prior to the social and visual event of making a mess.

Once the piece is performed with care and after the performing listeners have gone through a sophisticated white noise composition, they are left with exact 24 (30, 64,...) shavings of paper on the floor.

instructions:

Rip the paper along the lines in the given order of the numbers.

black = as super slow as possible
white (red) = as speedy quick as possible

Music in Pieces was worked out for several occasions in various numbers of "pieces".

Music in 18 Pieces (duo) + Music in 20 Pieces (solo), in the form of placemats, A3, commissioned by Concertgebouw Brugge, 2024
Music in 11 Pieces for the website 1000 Scores. Pieces for Here, Now & Later., 2020
Music in 24 Pieces in the group exhibition 'Pragmatismus und Selbstorganisation' at the IKOB-Museum of Contemporary Art Eupen, Belgium, 2018
Music in 24 Pieces in the group exhibitions "The New Normal" in Beirut and Istanbul, 2017 and Belgium, 2018
Music in 64 pieces for the dinner & art event "LA 21ème" by Effi&Amir, Brussels, 2017
Music in 24 Pieces published in the score book 'The whole world is weird on top and wild at heart' for the contemporary music festival "rainy days" by the Philharmonie Luxembourg, 2016
Music in 64 pieces (on A3) part of the audience scores for the Oude Kerk Amsterdam in 2016 (video)
Music in 30 pieces part of the "Hotel Scores" for the ACE Hotel, New York City, 2015
Music in 30 pieces subject of the workshop "The Art of Listening" for a.o. p.a.r.t.s., Brussels and Sead, Salzburg, 2013/4
Music in 30 pieces commissioned by 'Musica - impulse center for music' for their New Years postcard, send to hundreds of subscribers, Neerpelt 2014.