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On January 1st, 2002, Goat Island began a collaborative yearlong
writing project. They designated by chance one weekday for each
of the seven company members. Each individual wrote twelve sentences
(17.5 word average), equivalent to one every two hours, on that
day. The writer differentiated between diurnal and nocturnal sentences,
with night/day lengths plotted according to Chicago’s latitude.
A question and a structural variation distinguished each month.
Their objectives at any given point in the project included, but
did not limit themselves to, 1) answering the question; 2) documenting
the development of our performance work; 3) keeping a diary; 4)
writing creatively. The project produced 210 words/day; 1,470 words/week;
76,650 words for the year.
June
Question - by Litó Walkey
"What would your shadow do?"
June Structural Variation - by Lin Hixson
Promenade: An evening stroll
Consider the 5-week month as an evening stroll through the city.
The walk has five modes of activity, each with its own mode of expression,
corresponding to each week.
Detailed notes enclosed with the CD
"What would your shadow do?" was originally commissioned
for radio broadcast as part of the 2002 Outer Ear Festival of Sound
in Chicago. The piece combines text recorded live at the Nightwalking
Conference (London, 2002) with additional sounds and audio effects.
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