Benedict Mason
Every day at 2000 Avgarde will stage a performance of one piece from Benedict Mason's book outside sight unseen and opened. Of the book, Mason says:
This book can...serve as the basis for precisely and fully notated pieces in all requisite parameters - musical - spatial - acoustical - performance - and so on, remembering always that the focus should be in the intrinsic specified parameters of distance, synchronisation and movement. These are fundamental to any practical or theoretical approach to the presentation of the effects depicted within.
The priority in this book...is towards acoustical (ie natural, unamplified) sound - with or without the aid of technology: we have to celebrate the unparalleled sophistication of the human ear in the age of the ubiquitous loudspeaker.
