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1998
– 2004
with addenda & texts from 2005 - 2006
THE FREEFORMFREAKOUT ORGANISATION / NORFOLK
AND GOODE PRESS
Performance
Texts: Alan Bowman
Surviving performance/event scores produced by Alan Bowman/The
Freeformfreakout Organisation in the period 1998 to 2004 with an addendum of
alterations and additions to texts and additional texts from 2005/2006.
The texts in this edition are in no particular order, just like the
author.
Alan Bowman 2006
First published, somewhat dubiously,
in electronic format by the Norfolk and Goode Press.
(a subsidiary of the Freeformfreakout Organisation – despite what either party
says)
2006
Alan Bowman reserves the right as
author to copyright over all parts of this publication.
Mind you, he also reserves the right to deny all knowledge of and refute any
form of involvement with the same.
N.B. The titles highlighted in yellow have been proposed for inclusion in
a series of performance events to be held, in colaboration with Alison Knowles,
at Waygood gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, May 2007
page xi Cooking
Pieces (Imagine this piece boiled)
page xiv Map/Landscape Interventions (hole)
page xvii Untitled Sound Piece (room)
page
xxi untitled (for emily harvey)
page xxii for
the airshaft - 537 broadway (for emily harvey) (emilyshout)
page
xxiii 3 telephone events (for
emily harvey)
page
xxvi untitled in d (variation)
page xxix On Finding a Hole in a Map.
page xxx TOURIST
ACTIVITY VENICE
page xxxiii CHANGE
THE SOUND OF THE SEA
page xxxiv untitled (eyesmoon)
page xxxiv On
Finding the Moon in the Street
page xxxv synchronise
your blinking with your breathing
page
xxxvii Exchange shadows with
someone
page xxxviii TEN
HIDING EVENTS
page xl DATE OF BIRTH # 1, 2, 3, 4
page xli Merge:
Video Projection:Installation:Event:
page xlii Yes
is not necessarily… (1)
page xliii Yes
is not necessarily….(2)
page
xlviii 2 IMPROVISED SOUPS
page li Events
for Woolworths or another store of a similar ilk
page
liii Opening (for Reg Vardy
Gallery)
page liv Apartment (Per la biennale di
venezia)
page lx ADDENDUM: Additions, alterations
to 1998/2004 scores
2005-2006
page
lxiv two instruction cards
page lxvii An
Experiment (Performer Free Painting Events 1 &2)
page
lxviii For an orchestra i
page lxxiii untitled (window mic)
page
lxxviii Untitled (keyboard eggs
audience)
page
lxxix Untitled for pianoforte
page lxxx FFFO Magic Tricks 1 & 2
page lxxxiii Shoe
Event (late shoe days)
page
lxxxiv Music for the Air (1,2,3)
Performance Texts: Alan Bowman
1998-2004
CANA E AN E
N EQUENZA
L GR D
I S
(o TRICOLORE)
20 performers
20 music stands + score
sheets
20 caving lamps (or other
lamps that can be worn on the head)
20 red torches
20 green torches
conductor/metronome
bell/horn
Each performer has a
number corresponding to a line of the score, this line is their starting point
Where the score indicates
green, green torch is flashed on and off (or for a variation - "on"
on the first green, off on the second and so on)
Where the score indicates
red, red torch is flashed on and off (or for a variation - "on" on
the first red, off on the second and so on)
Where the score indicates
white - nod head (or shake, tilt - to be decide beforehand)
Where nothing is
indicated - do nothing!
Each performer begins
with their own line and works through the score until all lines are done (or
for a specified time - e.g. the length
of time it take the #1 vaporetto to go from Piazzale Roma to Santa Maria
Elisabetta)
VAPORETTO
STOPS:
1. PIAZZALE
ROMA = -I----L-R---
2. FERROVIA = --RR--I-
3. SANTA
MARCUOLA = S------RC--L-
4. RIVA DI
BASIO = RI--DI-I--I-
5. SAN STAE = S--S---
6. Ca' d' ORO = C-D-R-
7. Rialto = RI-L--
8. SAN SILVESTRO = S--SIL--S-R-
9. SANT' ANGELO = S-----G-L-
10. SAN SAMUELE = S--S----L-
11. Ca'
REZZONICO = C-R-ZZ--IC-
12. ACCADEMIA = -CC-D--I-
13. SANTA
MARIA DEL GIGLIO = S------RI-D-LGIGLI-
14. SALUTE = S-L---
15. SAN MARCO = S----RC-
16. SAN
ZACCARIA = S--Z-CC-RI-
17. ARSENALE = -RS---L-
18. GIARDINI = GI-RDI-I
19. SANT' ELENA = S----L---
20. SANTA
MARIA ELISABETTA = S------RI--LIS------
SCORE. L=LEFT, R=RIGHT, C=CENTRE
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K
1. - L - - - - L – R - - - - - - - - - - -
2. - - R R - - L - - - - - - - - - - - - -
3. L - - - - - - R C - - L - - - - - - - -
4. R L - - R L – L - - L - - - - - - - - -
5. L - - L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
6. C – R – R - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
7. R L – L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
8. L - - L L L - - L – R - - - - - - - - -
9. L - - - - - L – L - - - - - - - - - - -
10. L - - L - - - - L - - - - - - - - - - -
11. C – R – C C - - L C - - - - - - - - - -
12. - C C – R - - L - - - - - - - - - - - -
13. L - - - - - - R L – R – L L L L L L - -
14. L – L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
15. L - - - - R C - - - - - - - - - - - - -
16. L - - C – C C – R L - - - - - - - - - -
17. - R L - - - L - - - - - - - - - - - - -
18. L L – R R L – L - - - - - - - - - - - -
19. L - - - - L - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20. L - - - - - - R L - - L L L - - - - - -
ALTERNATIVE TO 20X20 GRID
= JUST PLAY ONE AFTER ANOTHER - OVERLAP OR ROUND STYLE
venezia, 07/1999
CCTV
TWO
ROOMS
CONNECTED
BY A SINGLE DOOR, ACCESSIBLE AND CLEARLY VISIBLE TO THE AUDIENCE.
A T.V.
MONITOR IN THE AUDIENCE ROOM, CONNECTED TO A VIDEO CAMERA IN THE OTHER ROOM.
THE MONITOR SHOWS THE OTHER ROOM.
WHEN THE
AUDIENCE IS SETTLED, AN INTRODUCTION IS MADE AND THE T.V. MONITOR IS SWITCHED
ON.
ON A
GIVEN CUE, THE PERFORMER MOVES TO THE DOOR AND OPENS IT.
THE DOOR
ON THE SCREEN OPENS.
THE
PERFORMER EXITS THROUGH THE DOOR AND GOES INTO THE OTHER ROOM.
THE
VIDEO CAMERA AND MONITOR SHOW THIS. ON THE MONITOR THE PERFORMER APPEARS IN THE
NEXT ROOM:
I. BUT
IN A DIFFERENT SHIRT;
II. AND
PERFORMS SOMETHING ON SCREEN. AS THE AUDIENCE WATCHES THIS (taped) PERFORMANCE,
THE PERFORMER SECRETLY RE-ENTERS THE ROOM AND WATCHES THE PERFORMANCE WITH THE
AUDIENCE;
III. AS
A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON;
IV.
DISAPPEARING AND REAPPEARING IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE ROOM.
sunderland, 1999
CRESCENDO by The Freeformfreakout Organisation
crescendo
choose a specific time of day or night
at exactly the same time every day
perform the following
day one - turn on one electrical
appliance (including audio-visual)
day two - turn on another appliance
day three - turn on another
etc.
etc.
carry on until you reach a point where
everything is turned on
from this point all items with alterable
volume controls should, on each
successive day, be turned up by one
when everything is turned on and all
volumes are at maximum –
reverse the above process
the event ends when all appliances are
again turned off
venezia,
1999-12-14.
Something
is buried at each of the cardinal and intercardinal points of the compass, each
at an equal distance from a chosen place ('point a').
The
location of 'point a' is kept a secret.
venezia, 2004
Given
the right conditions, this piece could kill someone.
venezia, 2003
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Imagine
this piece shallow fried
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Imagine
this piece deep-fried
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Imagine
this piece baked
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Imagine
this piece roasted
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Imagine
this piece steamed
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Imagine
this piece poached
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Imagine
this piece refrigerated
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Imagine
this piece frozen
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1
pockets contents
2 purse
contents
3 body
4 clothes
5 drinks
(in glass, poured)
6 hard
7soft
8 found
9furniture
10 from
a great height
11
thrown
12 body
fluids (spit, blood, tears, piss)
13
explosive devices
new york, 2002
join up
everywhere you've ever been
On
finding and using an old map:
Locate
any holes.
Go to
the relevant map location and remove that part of the terrain/town/etc. covered
by the hole in the map.
If the
map has no holes, damage areas of the landscape covered by wear marks, folds,
etc.
Wherever
possible, try to make the area of removal/damage correspond to the shape of the
hole or damage on the map.
venezia, 2003
Draw a
map of everywhere you remember being.