CCR76

It's not music. It's my heart beating.

CFIRT146

Page one of the Evening Standard current on the day of performance. Each performer has a copy which he will use as his score. Performers decide individually how they wish to interpret the score and perform accordingly for a given length of time.

Notes

Improvisation Rite 3. Suggestions for playing: Play it straight through as if one was actually reading it. Play the pictures only. Play the headlines only. Play the captions only. Play the punctuation only. Play one news item only. Play the white space around the print only. Etc, etc.

Alternate version: Each player has a previously agreed distinct part to play (eg. one of the above, etc.). Ending can still be at a given time or whenever players feel they have finished.

Notes from 2015

The author of this rite, Carole Finer, has stated that the Evening Standard has changed a lot since 1969. This should be performed with a 'serious' broadsheet newspaper, with several stories on the front page, such as the Sunday Times.  It is acceptable for an ensemble to use the business section in addition to the main news section.  It must be the front page only of these sections.  Not everyone need use the same front page.

CCCSR18

An elected soloist undertakes to repeat an action over and over again. The electorate accompanies it. A changeover of soloist may or may not be attempted during a performance.

Notes

Soloing Rite

CHSTBOR15A

Having completed the above rite, the members of the group play, using their objects, until the objects are broken or in some recognizable way different from how they were before. The rite ends when all the objects are broken or damaged. Be careful not to break anything other than the objects (this rite is better performed out of doors, in a large open space).

Notes

Supplement: The Broken Object Rite

Typist note

 'The above rite' refers to CHTHOR15.

CCAR17

At a signal all players commence playing a continuous accompaniment. As the spirit moves them, individual players rise and play solos. after soling, rest. After resting, play more accompaniment (the same as before or different). Cease playing at a signal.
Definition: An accompaniment is music that allows a solo - in the event of one being played - to be appreciated as such.

Notes

Accompanying Rite   F: Scratch Music

CCPR16

Within a certain overall playing-time each player determined by random means one or more stretched during which he will play, for the rest remaining silent.
Players with access to mechanical or electrical equipment may make 2 parts, one of which would be performed by the mechanical or electrical equipment, the player simply switching it on and off at the appropriate points.

Notes

Poem Rite, derived from 'Poem' by LaMonte Young.

CHTHOR15

1. Each member of the group finds an object from outside the performing area (preferably from the streets, fields, etc.) Any member of the group who is reluctant to work alone may team up with another or others who are similarly inclined (do not work in groups of more than 3). They choose one object between them, but each has the full number of guesses (see below). A time-limit (eg. 45 minutes) may be set, at the end of which time all the members of the group must have returned to the performing area with their objects.
2. After finding his object each member of the group covers it with a handkerchief, scarf, newspaper, etc, in such a way that the identity of the object is not immediately apparent.
3. Upon re-entering the performing area, each member of the group places his object in front of him and begins to play, If he moves he should take his object with him or, if this is impractical, write his name on a card and place it beside his object.
4. At any time during the rite a member of the group may go over to another and attempt to guess the identity of his object (the objects may not be touched). He may only make a certain number of guesses for each object (see below), making these together or at two, three of four visits to that object. Having made the fixed number of guesses, me may make no more regarding that object, but may move to another, etc. Each member should have by his object a sheet of paper, on which other members coming to try to guess the object, write their name and the number of guesses they make. Upon returning they will be able to see whether or not they are entitled to make and more guesses, and, if they are, how many.
5. The system regarding the number of guesses each member of the gorup may make for each object is: Where less than 8 people are participating, each has 4 guesses for each object. Where there are 16-24, each has 2 guesses per object, and where there are more than 24, each has 1 guess per object.
6. When a player's object has been guessed, he must uncover it and stop playing. He can, however, continue to guess other people's objects as before, until his allotted number of guesses has been made.
7. Members of the group should not reveal to others, or demand of others, what guesses those members have made concerning any of the objects. However, if towards the end of the rite there are one or more objects which have defied identification, the members of the group who are qualified to make guesses regarding the object(s), concerned may club together to  discuss the object(s), or the guesses already made, and may pool the remaining number of guesses available to each. These members may not ask the remaining members (those no longer qualified to guess the objects concerned) about their guesses.
8. The rite ends a) when all the objects have been identified, or b) when one or more objects, all the available guesses having been made, remain unidentified. the owner(s) of the objects should then reveal their identity, with all due ceremony.

Notes

 The Hidden Object Rite