One hour, one placed tone
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Each performance is one hour long with a single tone placed within the hour
(a subset of my recital series)
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Using the method of approximating trisecting an angle as described by Albrecht Dürer in his "Underweysung der Messung",
I will apporoximately-trisect an angle that has the same number of degrees as there are minutes in the performance (in this case: 60),
and perform a rest/tone/rest with the same proportions in the hour as the three parts of the angle-trisection
about
July 2, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will play a rest/tone/rest with the proportions of three address numbers that are posted together
(randomly selected from my collection of photographs)
example
July 1, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will flip a coin 3600 times and record the results.
Then I will sustain a tone for the number of seconds equal to the number of tails flips,
and rest for the number of seconds equal to the heads flips.
June 29, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will role a 100-sided die twice, and play a tone during the lower-number-th division of the hour
into the higher-number equal parts.
(for example, if I roll a 23 and 48, I will play a tone during the 23rd division of the hour into 48 equal parts)
June 28, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The two roots for the equation y = (3x-d/5)^2 - a(3x-d/5) - a
where a=(the age of the performer in years) and d=(number of the days since the beginning of the year)
give the beginning and ending time of a single tone (measured in minutes) within the hour of the performance
June 27, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Repeated iterations of Cellular Automata Rule 0 applied to a string of 99 rests and notes
(0 translates to a rest, 1 translates to a note)
with the initial condition of a single note (1) in the middle of the string.
about
June 26, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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During each second N of the hour, a 1/(3601-N) chance of a tone, until a tone has been sounded
June 25, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone: the first 2/3 of the tone is in the first 1/3 of the hour, and the last 1/3 of the tone is in the last 2/3 of the hour
June 24, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The first in a series of 10000 one-hour performances.
For the Nth performance, I will play a tone during the Nth equal division of the hour into 10000 parts.
June 23, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A single tone placed within an hour, which is a scaled-down replica of the
duration of the hour of the performance within the day of the performance.
June 21, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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During the hour of the performance, a tone during a single complete subdivision of the day into 49 equal parts
(divided from midnight to midnight)
If the performance time includes 2 complete subdivisions, a new performance time must be chosen
June 20, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A single tone placed within an hour, which is a scaled-down replica of the
duration of the day of the performance within the year of the performance.
June 19, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Pieces of dry spaghetti are broken by bending them from the 2 ends until the break results in 3 pieces.
Then: a silence, tone, and silence in the proportions of the pasta fragments to the whole.
The length of the performance (1 hour) corresponds to the length of the original whole piece of speghetti.
The first silence corresponds to the fragment in my left hand, the final silence corresponds to the fragment in my right hand,
and the tone corresponds to the middle fragent
June 18, 2025, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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One million vibrations III:
277 7/9 Hz sustained for 60'00"
June 17, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sonification of the second iteration in the construction of the Cantor Set:
a single tone between 1/3 and 2/3 of the duration of the performance
June 16, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A speculative work based on a fragment of Ancient Greek music that contains only one note.
Catagorized by Pöhlmann & West as Fragment 52 of entry no. 6 in their book "Documents Of Ancient Greek Music"
(PAP. ASHM. INV. 89B/29-32, Third-second century BC)
I will imagine an hour-long piece that this note could have been a part of, playing out loud only the single written note
June 13, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of three durations: silence, tone, silence; filling an hour,
that form a Pythagorean Triple, randomly chosen just before the performance, in a random order
June 12, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of three durations: silence, tone, silence; filling an hour,
that have a superparticular ratio, randomly chosen just before the performance, in the order shortest to longest
June 11, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone begins when the minute and hour hands of a clock are at a 90-degree angle,
and the tone ends when the minute and hour hands are again at a 90-degree angle.
Based on a concept by Dan Ruccia
June 6, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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For 3600 seconds, a tone on second N if N has exactly 11 divisors
June 4, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will roll a 100-sided die and sustain a tone for the first (1/result) of an hour.
June 2, 2025, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I asked two friends to send me a postcard with a number between 1 and 3600.
Counting seconds, I will play a tone beginning on the smaller-numbered second and ending on the larger-numbered second.
June 1, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The day before the performance (midnight to midnight) mapped proportionally onto an hour:
a tone begins at sunrise and ends at sunset.
May 31, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The day before the performance (midnight to midnight) mapped proportionally onto an hour:
a tone begins when I awoke and ends when I fell asleep.
May 30, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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For the hour-long performance, a tone and then silence.
The tone being proportional in length to the duration of life lived,
and the silence being proportional in length to life yet to come, based on my statistical life expectancy.
Based on artwork by Micah Lexier
May 28, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Four timepoints (the beginning of the performance, the beginning of a tone,
the end of a tone, and the end of the performance)
that create the structure of a perfect and optimal Golomb ruler of order 4
May 27, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will listen to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's 60-minute recording of Bruckner 7 on headphones
and play a tone in temporal unison with the single cymbal note
percussion part
May 26, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Without using a clock, I will attempt to play a 1-minute tone exactly halfway through the hour
May 25, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone connecting two timepoints in the hour-long performance.
One timepoint is derived from from dividing the day into 1000 equal parts,
and the other timepoint is derived from dividing the hour of the performance into 1000 equal parts.
I will play a tone connecting the two moments when proportions of equal number
from both divisions come closest to each other in time.
(for example, perhaps the 689th divisions of both timeframes are closest in time)
May 24, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone at the end of an hour, with a duration that has the same proportion to the hour
as the day of the performance has to my life's duration so far
December 21, 2020, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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