One hour, one placed tone

Hour-long performances that consist of a single specifically-placed tone (mostly on the violin) (a subset of my recital series)

Two sinetones at [440 Hz] and [440 1/3600 Hz] are played over headphones, starting in phase and passing out of phase once during the hour. I will sustain a 440Hz note on my violin when I can no longer hear the sinetones, and stop my note when I can hear them again July 15, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

My wife will hide in our home a small Arduino-powered device that will play a soft 1-second tone sometime during the hour. I will listen for it. July 14, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

I will play a short tone when the ratio of an object's height and the length of its shadow equals the ratio of the elapsed portion of the hour and the remaining portion July 13, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

A set of three simultaneous hour-long performances. My two friends Nate Olsen and Andrea Kenning will each sustain a single tone (middle C), at their own performances, at a time and duration (more than 30 minutes) of their own choosing I will hear a live broadcast of their performances (through headphones) and will sustain a tone during the overlap of their tones. July 12, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm, San Diego time House concerts, San Diego, Seattle, Boston

A tone during a single second of the hour, determined by a two-symbol Turing Machine writing "1". The Turing Machine is designed to write only a single "1" and also halt after 3600 steps (working at one step per second) (this is shortest Turing Machine I've found yet that fits the description) July 11, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

A single tone (middle C is a good one) performed during the hour at the time and duration of the performer's choosing. It is follwed by an hour in which the audience members have time to return home, which is follwed by another hour in which the audience members are invited to repeat a mirror-image-in-time of the original tone within the hour, creating a palindromic connection with the first performer July 10, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

A single tone placed within the hour of perfomance such that at the end of the tone, the duration of the tone in seconds will equal the square root of the seconds elapsed in the performance so far, and the total number of vibrations of the tone will equal the square of the number of seconds remaining in the hour. July 8, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

A rest/tone/rest performed in the proportions of the telephone number (area code : prefix : line number) of my best friend from childhood, whose number I can still recall instantly July 7, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

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 close-to-angle-trisection about July 6, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

A one-hour duration that is equally divided into tone and silence: a single tone, with silence on either side, symmetrical around the center of the hour July 5, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

A one-hour duration that is equally divided into a tone and a silence: first tone, then silence. July 4, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

The first in a series of performances to play the numbers 1 through 2^3600-1 as binary strings, one number per performance; one digit each second; 1=tone, 0=rest; ones place is the first second of the performance July 3, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

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 2, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

I will play a tone within the hour with the same proprortions as a single window situated in a wall (measured horizontally) (randomly selected from my collection of photographs of walls with single windows) example July 1, 2025, 6:00pm - 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One million vibrations III: 277 7/9 Hz sustained for 60'00" June 17, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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