Beckett Synchronicity

Well, we just had an ANABloggers quorum on a phone conference and found, to our amazement, that both echo and I were working on Beckett's Breath. The play simply requires an actor to lip-sync with a pre-recorded breath onstage. Full stop. It's the original microscore. Loop 2.4.3 will be performing it on SOUNDunderGROUND's avant-garde vaudeville on June 16.

The simple concept is exactingly executed by Beckett:



If that seems like too much work, try the Sucking Stones game at your next concert. Based off the sucking stones sequence from Molloy, it's a clever set of instructions to instrumentalists, yielding a different result every time.

Rule Number 1

Rule Number 2

Rule Number 3