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Future Music [In Three Movements](1995)
Second Movement

Performed during "Nothing To It" on Saturday, May 3, 2008
Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre
University of Houston
presented by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
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click on the postcard
Included in the evening's program was a postcard (pictured above) which was given to each audience which read:

"Using the front of this postcard, describe very briefly a sound you hear on Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 5:10 p.m. CST
On the front of this postcard, please state you location a the moment you observe this sound (street address, etc.)
and return the card to The Art Guys. These descriptions of sounds will be posted on The Art Guys' website
TheArtGuys.com after June 1, 2008."

Below is a map of "Future Music [In Three Movements] Second Movement" as experienced by 29 audience members
at 5:10 p.m., CST on Sunday, May 4, 2008. It's a selection of descriptions of sounds in and around Houston at that moment.
Please click on the numbers to view the postcard submitted from that approximate location.
The postcards are numbered arbitrarily with no significance except as identifiers.

This presentation of "Future Music" is dedicated to Scott Sommers, one of Houston's leading supporters of experimental music and whose program on KPFT – The Avant Garde – was the headquarters for experimental music in Houston for more than 25 years.

When listeners first consider "Future Music," they think ahead to the prescribed time in which to listen and therefore think of sounds in the future.  During the prescribed time of listening, they are then made aware of sound in the present.  And finally, as presented here, the piece is completed after the prescribed time of listening has long past.  So, in fact, it’s not music of the future at all, but music of the future first, present second, and lastly, the past.  It’s about time.  In some respects it's about time in reverse as well as how it is normally perceived.  And in this way, it gets to the very essence of music – a phenomenon of time, space and sound.

"What is most invigorating for me is music that is not yet written. I want something that I do not yet know." - John Cage

"I think we agree, the past is over." - George W. Bush (on his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000)

Enjoy!

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