Ping: Score: Ping score mock-up, fragment: Explanation of the visual manipulations appropriate to the slide-projected texts for sections A and B of Ping

In preparing for presentation of this work in the form of an explanatory score, Reynolds pasted text fragments such as this into a viable montage that allowed for page design. The score for Ping involved not only the necessary representation to the performers of sound events, time and relationships, but also an explanation of the entire context within which a performance was supposed to occur. In many inter-media works, the creators simply (?) guided events in performance by word of mouth and example. Reynolds tried, in contrast, to actually create a "score document" that would allow potential performers to grasp not only the aesthetic ends, and performance practice involved, but the overall logistical context. Ping is in three sections, identified as A, B, and C. Particular conditions shape the musical materials used in each section as well as the electro-acoustic sounds (and their modification) and text projections (and their modifications).

• 1968

• Reynolds, Roger, 1934-

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

• Scores

• Multimedia works

• text

• English

Shared Shelf: 3975451

Online finding aid

• Roger Reynolds Collection at the Library of Congress

Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art

Performing Arts (including Performance Art)

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• Reynolds, Roger, 1934-

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2021-09-29