| Title | Paper Piece, originally from the album Early Works, with Benjamin Patterson (director) and performers Davide Mosconi, Gabriele Bonomo, Philip Corner, Phoebe Neville, and Walter Marchetti (paper) |
| Maker | Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016) |
| Date | 1999 |
| Type | audio |
Though its instructions are written in language without any Western musical notation, Paper Piece is in some ways a traditional musical composition insofar as certain dynamics are prescribed (even though the order of each task is left to performers to determine within the rough boundaries of ten to twelve and a half minutes). In this recording, one can hear very clearly a narrative progression toward louder sounds.
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Patterson, Benjamin. Paper Piece, originally
from the album Early Works, with Benjamin
Patterson (director) and performers Davide Mosconi,
Gabriele Bonomo, Philip Corner, Phoebe Neville, and
Walter Marchetti (paper), 1999. . In
The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music,
Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John
Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.
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