notes on music

music is music
the rest is noise
no, is, e
no sé

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notations
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motif
mot, if

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le moment
[le mot ment]

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passage
pas sage

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string quartet

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d’akkord

jeu de notes ¹ Stravinsky

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no to ton tonto
TONTON [ton ton]
ONTONT [entente]
NTONTO [un tonto]
TONTON [ton ton]
NOTNOT [not not]
OTNOTO [ot noto]
TNOTNO [to not no]
NOTNOT [not not]

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c dur
c’est dûr

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irrational durations

du__________ratio
i_________rational

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FFLLAATT
double flat

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sinfonia domestica
after Richard Strauss

see sharp
b flat
age minor

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love,
sis moll

surprise du son

l’écoute est la destruction du silence
john cage

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pensato
[this note is meant to be imagined only]

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silent
si lent

dial-a-poem ³ john giorno

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OGUE

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simphonie

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le silence n’existe qu’en tant d’une idée

sonsations

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ursonate
variations

dusonate
toursonate
mursonate
kursonate
uhrsonate
nursonate

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haute musique
compeauser
compeausition
compeaunie

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composolitan
composolitary
compositionary
cosmoposition
compostellation

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intervalse

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assemblage
assemblamage
assemblimage

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PAST MUSIC ⁴ 20^th century music ⁵ 21^st century music

° ⁶ das nadelöhr, durch das alle kommende musik hindurch muss

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this continu
in variation

dear ear

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das ohrchester

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( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
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titles for pieces

“long piece”
trigger warning

“LONG PIECE”
bigger warning

“l0ng piece”
jigger warning

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l’imitation
limitation

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imitations
intimidations

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utopian piece

ostinato
ost i nato ⁷ schwedisch, der osten in der nato, or: the east in the nato

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AVIGNON
[ah,oui!non]
[ah,oui!non]
[ah,oui!non]
[ah,oui!non]
[ah,oui!non]

mais si merci

Cia Rinne

studied philosophy in Frankfurt, Athens, and Helsinki (MA), lives near Berlin. Influenced by Dada and Fluxus, her minimalist poetry explores language materiality and semiotic shifts, seamlessly transitioning into performances, exhibitions, sound installations and video works, as well as libretti and texts for the stage. Notable publications include zaroum, notes for soloists, l’usage du mot, and sentences. Cia Rinne’s oeuvre was awarded the Prix littéraire Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou 2019.

movements (series)

this movement is waiting for its moment this movement should begin any moment ¶ this movement should have been an introduction ¶ this movement would prefer to be spoken ¶ this movement will not let you breathe before it is finished ¶ this movement would like to extend endlessly in time ¶ this movement could be a bad idea ¶ this movement wishes it could start all over again ¶ this movement promises more than it can keep ¶ this movement should behave as though nothing happened ¶ this movement would prefer to be in a different score ¶ this movement loves the opera ¶ this movement emphasizes every single note ¶ this movement feeds on the dissolution it spreads ¶ this movement would like to be supplied with a footnote ¶ this movement is unnecessarily complicating things ¶ ideally, this movement should remain silent ¶ this movement feels limited by its own structure ¶ individual attempts of this movement in the context are futile ¶
this movement is determined to impress a certain composer ¶ this movement cannot stand alone ¶ this movement has a coarse voice ¶ this movement has been moved elsewhere ¶ this movement is just following the method provided ¶ this movement appears to contradict the previous one ¶ this movement could be replaced with another one without anyone noticing ¶ this movement would prefer to stay off the record ¶ thinks it is too modern for this composition ¶ this movement pretends to emancipate atonality ¶ this movement refuses to be a footnote to past music ¶ this movement wonders whether it could exist outside this composition ¶ this movement wonders whether it will exist when the music ends ¶ this movement is worried it will never end ¶ this movement wants to end on a positive note ¶ this movement cannot be the last one ¶ ideally, this movement should leave no trace

notes on music jeu de notes surprise du son sonsations dear ear utopian piece

Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Essay Series

Cia Rinne, 2023 notes on music