BIBLIOGRAPHY 4 SCORES

Research for the Performance Improviser

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http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780472063840

HALFLIFE: Improvisations & Interviews, by Charles Wright (1989)

Poetry is the dark beast with its mouth open, and you’ve got to walk down that tongue and into the windy mouth. And you’ve got to sing while you walk. — Charles Wright

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NATURAL BORN FLUXUS: An Anthology of Childhood Events by Contemporary Fluxus Artists

"The sorts of things that delight a Fluxus artist tend to be of an ephemeral nature, contain a humorous element and refer to that mysterious something that makes one laugh at a joke; call it irony or the unexpected twist, Fluxus artists enjoy a good surprise and a clever turn of phrase.  They are willing to remain innocent enough to be easily amused and fall for a good trick" by Cecil Touchon from the Introduction to NATURAL BORN FLUXUS (2008)

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DANCE: Documents of Contemporary Art (2012)

"...when Lisa Nelson speaks of her Tuning Score she does not refer to a written score at all, but to a set of shared agreements and tools that together constitute 'a communication and feedback system for an ensemble of players" by Myriam Van Imschoot "Rests in Pieces: Scores Notation and the Trace in Dance (2005)

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do it: the compendium (2013)

  "Ultimately, do it, is the result of a simple proposition: Create an instruction that someone else can use to make an artwork.  The outcome has taken on a life of its owns people produce and reach to the instructions and the questions they give rise to, such as what constitutes an artwork?  How does an idea change in the process of realizing it? "

by Kate Fowle + Frances Wu Giarratano---Forward----page 9.

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the virtuosic and the casual, all treated equally. And the elements can seem to be combined, sequenced, in every possible way: stitched, braided, rammed, shuffled, juxtaposed and---against resolution and limiting definitions but not against dynamic shape. There’s acceleration, crescendos that build to screams.

about TERE O'CONNOR'S  "Bleed"