Ping: Score: Mock up; page

Because Ping, as a multimedia work, was, at the time of its composition, a fairly unique creative effort, there were really no models readily available for how such a piece could be represented to performers. I took the approach that the "score" should ideally make the work available to performers anywhere without the necessity of my presence. This meant that not only the details of the musical events and their overall structure needed to be made clear, but also the entire logistical structure, from the performance paraphernalia and sonic and visual materials needed, to the ways in which they were to be treated/managed, and the ways in which - in a performance space - all of this was to come together in a coordinated way. The logistics of planning for such a total presentation turned out to be complex and involved a lot of trial and error. As everything then was done with a typewriter, blocks of text had to be proposed in some proportional way, and they typed in blocks of the appropriate sort to fit the page design. So there were several stages: 1) determine what it was that needed to be stated or portrayed, and whether it was best presented as text, as diagram, or as photo, or some combination of these three, 2) There had to be a "sketching" period whereby the optimal way of saying whatever was needed (or indicating it through other nom-textuall means) was determined, 3) Then there was an actual "paste-up", where small blocks of paper bearing the appropriate materials were glued to a master sheet so as to create the desired larger page image. Two differing presentations of the totality of Ping and its materials were attempted. One was for including in a "Newsletter" report distributed by the Institute of Current World Affairs, which had sponsored Karen and my residence in Japan from 1966-69, and the other was as a "stand alone" score. This score was subsequently reproduced in Score Magazine source #6 – July 1969 (published in association with the UC Davis campus, and overseen by then Professor Larry Austin, and his colleague Stanley Lunetta).

• 1968

• Reynolds, Roger, 1934-

Based on: Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Ping

• Scores

• Multimedia works

• text

• English

Shared Shelf: 3975464

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• Roger Reynolds Collection at the Library of Congress

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• Reynolds, Roger, 1934-

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2021-09-29