Tobias Reber – Page 12 – a hundred quirky legs

Composition Exercise #451

Livestock spirituals.

Are you a trusted voice in your choir?

Listen with a straight face.

Be happy with how it turned out, despite everything.

speculative composition:

launching unusual probes to explore

musical possibility space.

finding alien forms and

letting them work on you,

informing your next expedition.

Use your old cassette tapes to mummify your first guitar.

Write a 20+ part text score for solo electric guitar.

Release it in the form of a metal tour T-shirt.

Instead of listing the tour stops on the back,

simply list the score, one line per part.

Write your score on police tape.

For the first part of your performance,

mark the stage instead of a crime scene.

For the second part, play.

Glue your ears together.

Leave Lars Ulrich alone FFS.