For Many Performers With Loud Sounds

For car horns, trumpets, percussion, megaphones, trash cans, voice, etc.

Four of the performers begin situated on the four opposing street corners of a major intersection. The intersection should be surrounded by similar streets and intersections – the street layout should be as grid-like as possible. The remaining performers should begin to disperse into the city, while attempting to remain within earshot of at least one other performer.

Sound (a simple motive, rhythm, or fragment) begins in the original, central location. When a performer who is not playing begins to hear the original sound, he or she should begin to play a similar sound. After a performer has begun playing, he or she can stop and move to the next street corner at any point. (Performers should always aim to be playing at a street corner.) If a performer can no longer hear others, he or she should return to a point where the sound is again audible.

When moving, performers should actively encourage passers-by to join the piece. Pausing to explain the situation is acceptable, and passers-by can use an available means of sound production.

The piece is over when all performers have ceased.

Mia Plays RadioGamelan from Hsiao-Lan Wang on Vimeo.

• Duration is uncertain, but it looks like it will be a fairly decent duration – around an hour?.
• Three compositions, “Mediation” by David (check out the score here), and my own “RadioGamelan” and “Fission.”
• Some really really tasty improvisations have been happening, which will surely be included too.
• Recording at KSE, and the sound quality has been great – we’re really excited for people to hear this.

What you see here is my all-time earnings statement for my Last.FM page. Needless to say, re-working the page is on my list of things to do.

By the way, if you’re interested, you can check out the original album that Waveformations was released on. It’s from Wandering Ear, a netlabel releasing primarily field-recording and phonographic works. All of the tracks are reconstructions of an earlier Wandering Ear release, made of field recordings from Minnesota. My friend and collaborator David Collins also has a track there, which you should definitely check out.

The new release will be made up of improvisations and compositions performed by the trio of David Collins, Steve Schlei, and myself.