DUET FOR PERCUSSION AND HELICOPTER (NONSENSE/ SEEING=BELIEVING)
Is music still music if we cannot audibly perceive it? Is music inherently tied and central to human auditory and haptic perception? Is music a set of grid-like rules that act as a sieve to all sound?

I haven't the faintest idea.

But.

"Duet For Percussion and Helicopter (Nonsense/ Seeing=Believing)" is an absurdist performance piece, to take place between the Morrison and Hawthorne bridges, ~1000ft in the air. The performance will be viewable from either side of the esplanade and from each bridge.

"Untitled (Aleatoric Bike Piece)" is a multi-tiered tonal drone made of contextually harmonic and dissonant standing waves. The total piece is divided into seven equal parts and dispersed to seven different bicyclists. Each bicyclist carries their own portable speaker. The seven bicyclists ride together through the architecture of Portland's "Pearl" district, interacting with one another, with the moving public and with the concrete architecture. The semiotics of urban street signage becomes the score; a stop sign is a full stop, a pedestrian crossing is a half breath and a bicyclist's turn signal is a transposition. The act of riding and interacting with the downtown environment, hostile architecture and mass movements of traffic becomes the act of composing space and the perception of the unwitting spectacle audience.

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