Classroom, a composition of indeterminate duration
Score
Honk yawn squeaking pencil scraping paper tapping coughing (light)
Knuckle cracking paper shifting pen click stomping (moderate) pulling spiral paper
Scraping (chair) clapping hands (full class) body shifting in chair
iPhone alarm sound foot tapping coughing (heavy)
Jacket button or zipper scraping on chair people laughing (outside room)
“Go, this counts.”
I was a human instrument. At first I thought this was a scam but now I reflect on my past and remember that students in my high school used to do that with their surroundings, to create a beat. Like tapping and scrapping our pens to create music.
I’ll be very honest with you, I first viewed the video of John Cage’s music creation abnormal. But I remember how back in the years we did the samething but modified it to create a beat.