Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 0'00" is a joke...

dear joseph,

its very early in the morning here in Lisboa... but you open my  
apetite for a good rice in the morning... NOTE: and I normally don´t  
eat rice in the morning !!!! Best Regards and please: if you come to  
Lisboa I will invite you to play this piece !!!! best vitor rua



On 26 Oct 2011, at 02:51, Joseph Zitt wrote:

> What a wonderful discussion!
>
> I have been wanting to perform 0'00" for quite a while, realizing  
> that it is a very musical piece. These are the steps that i would do  
> in my realization:
>
> I make the promise to the people gathered that i will serve them  
> rice in about half an hour.
>
> ! attach contact mics to my rice cooker, and pour the rice and water  
> into the cooker.
>
> I turn on the cooker and then the amplification, which is cranked to  
> the maximum level possible without feedback (approximately 11 :-] )
>
> When the cooker clicks to "warm", I turn off the amplification, and  
> serve the rice (with possible added elements) to the people assembled.
>
> Thus the piece indeed is a piece of music consisting of the  
> beautiful sounds that my rice cooker makes while cooking. They would  
> be of a certain predictable type of sound but unpredictable. In  
> this, the piece is rather close to "Inlets."
>
> By the way, I would have the amplification off during the pouring-in  
> of rice and water, and during the serving since those sounds are  
> much louder than the cooking itself, and would mean that we would  
> have to set the amplification lower to avoid feedback.
>
> (If anyone in Cleveland is planning any events for Cage's  
> centennial, I would be eager to join in. There are other of his  
> works that I'm also eager to perform.)
> -- 
> Joseph Zitt ::http://www.josephzitt.com