Monday 29 September 2014

Day 29 - Convergence

So we reach the penultimate day of 30 Days in September. This piece is for two performers, each of whom has 6 lines of material to work with which can be played in any order or combination.


The piece was created using a technique similar to the 'cadavre exquis' game created by Andre Breton and his early surrealist group in the 1920s. Each section of each line was written at a different time of day with the paper folded over, meaning that I had to rely on my (admittedly questionable) memory to remember what had come before on that particular line. This proves to be quite impossible, with the added side effect that each section aligns vertically with the other lines at that point. Here's how it looked in progress:


And so the two players converge over the course of the piece, and we converge on the final day of our challenge.

1 comment:

  1. Weirdly, I just found out that Andre Breton died on 28 September 1966 - so I was a day late with this piece. I love coincidences.

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