FOUND AND FORGOTTEN
SOME EXPLANATIONS REGARDING THE SCORE OF FOUND AND FORGOTTEN:
This is a codified score for the making of music from magnetic tape, but now with magnetic tape. It is meant to be constructed one second at the time. Each second is a rupture of noises composed of four audible spheres: (A) Mechanical Sounds; (B) Sounds of Nature; (C) Sounds by Human; (D) Musical Notes.
Within each bracket, one may read a number of symbols (icons) and a number of (A). In such, all the fragments are always supported by a mechanical sound (ambient sound in the composition). It has come to my attention that we don’t pay close attention to soundscapes; it is then the business of this piece to slow down the process of hearing and work with all sounding matters as equally important.
This project exists at the edge between Roland Barthes’ refusal to fix meaning and John Cage’s refusal of meaning. In the late 1970s, the post-structuralism rethought textuality as an incessant productivity of language, signification, and power which resulted in a code for a multidimensional diffusion of meaning. On the other hand, Cage worked inside an effort to eliminate and suppress meaning; he composed with chances and un-intentionality in mind. This score is embracing the failure and chances linked with leaving intentionality to the making; it removes the creator—composer—from the system and leaves the project with a set of structures that may or may not succeed.
The rules are as followed:
1. Every recording is labelled A, B, C, or D.
2. You must pre-cut the segment in 1-second interval.
3. You mustn’t use an interval more than once in the entire piece.
4. Under no circumstance should you listen to the recordings or the whole piece you are assembling.
5. Every bracket with a number above the line is a “free-style” interval where you can select and play with the recordings (this is the only time you are allowed to listen to a fragment).
6. Let chances play the role of the actors.
7. Let the visual representations of the fragments speak to you.
Found and Forgotten is meant to embrace means of chance operations and does not require any musical background. The beauty of this merging is in the non-connection between all these sounds the—noises of the world.
