Birthday Present
12 chanced readings of Cage’s dear authors
one for each month of the year
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6 tossings will determine the action:
first tossing: Author
1. Henry David Thoreau
2. Erik Satie
3. Buckminster Fuller
4. Marshall Mcluhan
5. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
6. Marcel Duchamp
7. Matsuo Basho
8. Meister Eckhart
9. Morton Feldman
10. James Joyce
11. Gertrude Stein
12. on Mushrooms (any author)
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second tossing: Day of the month
1-31 or 1-29 or 1-30
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third tossing: Time of day
1. morning
2. midday
3. before lunch
4. after lunch
5. evening
6. late night
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fourth tossing: Location
1. closed interior
2. open interior
3. interior/exterior
4. closed exterior
5. open exterior
6. high exterior
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fifth tossing: Duration
1. 10‘
2. 20‘
3. 30‘
4. 40‘
5. 50‘
6. 60‘
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sixth tossing: Reading Speed
1. very slow
2. slow
3. normal
4. varied
5. fast
6. very fast
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proceedings will be documented here.
1st reading:
Henry David Thoreau's Walden
in the evening of January 31st in a high exterior
for 30 minutes at normal speed.
Valparaíso, Chile.
Photographs by Samuel Toro
2nd reading:
Morton Feldman
in the morning of February 24th in an open interior
for 60 minutes at slow speed.