As the performer continues to sight read
and play, the computer continues to listen and notate, creating an interactive
synergy where performance errors and expressive deviations lead to new
musical worlds. Over time the challenge of sight reading and the limits
of music notation evolve the piece into something very different than how
it began.
"One of my students compared Zero Waste
to the game of 'telephone', while someone else said it brought to mind
Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting in a Room", where the emphasis is on the resonances
in a system rather than the source material itself. Each performance of
Zero Waste is unique: each starts with a new two-measure computer-generated
"seed" of music, and of course each sight-reading will be rich with variation.
The performance persented here is the premiere, as performed by Kathleen
Supové on November 11, 2002, 8 pm, at NYU's Loewe Theater, 35 W4th St.,
NYC"
- Nick Didkovsky
- Links
- "Zero Waste: Mapping the Evolution of the Iterative Sight-Reading of a Piano Score" paper by David Whyte, Nick Didkovsky, and Stefan Hutzler in Music Theory Spectrum