A collection of "one note played once" pieces from my recital series

These are in addition to a series of pieces that consist specifically of
one tone within the duration of an hour.





I will sustain (to the best of my ability) the 10 billionth partial
of the fundamental frequency that has one cycle per 365-day year
(~317.097930908203125 Hz)
[2026]

I will play a tone for a duration equal in seconds to the
number of postcards I receive with the message:
"Add one second to your performance"
[2026]

A tone sustained for 1 nanocentury
as described in "Proceedings: IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Computers in Chemistry" (1968)
in a section by A. Savitzky
[2026]

I will sustain a tone for a duration equal to 1/100th the length time it takes
a postcard to go from my building's outbox to my own mailbox
[2026]

For any stringed instrument:
a single tone played on the string whose stringlength most closely matches
the wavelength of its frequency.
[2026]

I will sustain a tone from the beginning of the performance until
the next moment that divides the day into 100 equal parts
[2026]

An electronic tone: 1 second, 10 dB, 100 Hz, 1000 samples
[2026]

A tone sustained for a duration such that the number of vibrations equals
the number of seconds in the duration raised to an integer power.
In this case, 512 Hz sustained for 2 seconds (2^10 vibrations).
[2026]

I will sustain a tone (~425.5 Hz) which would theoretically create
10000 vibrations in the space between myself and my home
[2026]

A tone during the 625th division of the day into 1000 equal parts
[2025]

A tone sustained for the length of time it takes
the Earth to rotate 1 degree relative to the Sun
[2025]

As a detour on another trip, I'll travel to the town of Gold Beach, Oregon,
where the speed of the rotation of the Earth is equal to the speed of sound.
I'll sustain a tone for a while and imagine its soundwave matching the Sun's path.
[2025]

The song "E" from my series of self-descriptive songs
[https://midnightsledding.net/scores/self_descriptive.png]
[2025]

Homage to Chris Otto:
My neighbor has a model train set.
I put a speaker on a train car playing a 200 Hz tone,
and we made it go at a speed of 4 centimeters per second.
The change in pitch from the Doppler effect
as it went past me was the interval of the Ragisma (4375:4374)
[2025]

I got a wooden box which has interior dimensions of 1 foot X 1 foot X 1 foot.
I put a speaker in it which will play a soft tone,
generating 1 cubic foot of sound.
[2025]

I will listen to a single cycle of a 77.6 Hz tone,
played from a speaker on my desk,
which will completely fill my office with vibration
for a single moment in time.
(the tone will stop playing from the speaker
just as the vibration reaches the farthest corner of the room)
[2025]

A tone at the 37597th square-numbered second since my birth
[2025]

A tone sustained for a duration equal to the duration
between the beginning of the tone and
a point in time before the tone began,
chosen (in the moment) by the performer but unknown to the audience.
[2024]

A small speaker, suspended in the middle of a large room, playing a soft tone.
I will adjust the volume until the total audible extent of the tone
(as experienced and measured by myself)
is a sphere with a total volume of 250 cubic meters.
[2024]

I will sustain a note on the violin until two consecutive peaks
of the soundwave have the same 16-bit value
as measured by a PD patch
[2023]

My friend Eddie Davis and I will each choose a frequency and duration
and share them with each other. Then we will both listen to the tone
which is halfway between our chosen frequencies,
for a duration halfway between our chosen durations.
[2022]

An oscillator at 385 65/81 Hz, running for exactly 30 days,
producing 1 billion vibrations
[2022]

A soft tone from the moment the sun appears to touch the horizon
to the moment it disappears at sunset
[2021]

I will see how long I can sustain a 300 Hz tone
without varying more than 1/2 Hz in either direction
[2021]

An imagined year-long glissando from A3 to A4
(beginning at midnight on January 1).
I will make it audible for an hour.
[2021]

A tone for the duration that daylight is longer today
than it was on the winter solstice
[2021]

For one month, a tone at the moment each day that my shadow is the shortest.
Pitch determined by the length of the shadow in centimeters
[2020]

A tone halfway between the beginning of the performance and
the pre-determined but unannounced end time of the performance
[2020]

A tone if I sneezed on the day of the performance before the performance
[2020]

I will sustain my A string, tuned at the start to 441 Hz,
until it falls to 440 Hz
[2019]

Sustaining a tone until an audience member asks me to stop
[2019]

A tone played for the duration of 5000 heartbeats of the performer
[2019]

Erik Carlson: One million vibrations
[2018]

A softly sustained tone, amplified by the volume envelopes
from a live feed of the waves at La Jolla Cove
[2017]