Aggregate

Terms and abbreviations
from the map of a suburban
area measuring 10 x 10 kms
(TQ26, Ordnance Survey
1:25000 second series). Each
kilometre square is super-
imposed; the accumulative
interference isolating each
locative term from relation-
ships within its own territory.
1992

commentary

Fifty-six titles selected from
the bibliographical references
in Born to sing, an interpre-
tation and world survey of
bird song
, Charles Hartshorne,
Indiana 1973; the eighty year
succession of publication, from
1891 to 1970, corresponding
with the invisible continuum
of birdsong.
1994

kswhatab

Kurt Schwitters’ eleven-line stammering poem ‘What a b what a b what a beauty’ 1944, with a parallel alphabetic version of the five repeating words.
1994

Blackboard

After Ben Nicholson
1994

clicktrack

A timbreless, metronomic
‘pulse’ heard in headsets by
the conductor, or by condu-
ctor and musicians during the
performance of film music.
In either case, the purpose of
a click track is to ‘guide’ the
conductor and the musicians
temporally, so that ‘moments’
in the music will match
‘moments’ in the film as
intended by the composer.

“…there are several things
resembling click tracks that are
very limited, because there is
no way a performer can anti-
cipate a change… it comes
and there it is, they can‘t
anticipate…”

From an interview with the
‘composer for player-piano’
Conlon Nancarrow.
1999

nineteenineteenetc...

2001

et al

2005

someeconomics

Max’s Rolls / Li’s Beans
(Max Bill / Li Yuan-Chia;
22.12.1908–19.11.1994 / 6.4.1929–9.12.1994)
2006