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Passover - Movement I

from Passover by thingNY, Rick Burkhardt

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He has been given the assignment to write down, on a pile of one hundred notecards, moments of joy he has experienced over the course of his life. To complete the assignment he must come up with one moment of joy per notecard, totalling one hundred moments of joy. What an irritating project. He is much more inter/ested in problems than in moments of joy. Problems are absorbing — he can lose himself in problems for hours, days, without once getting bored. Moments of joy, outside their contexts, are impenetrable to him. But, having received the assignment from a trusted friend, he resolves, grimly, to complete it. [single chuckle]

He puts his moments of joy into categories: food, jokes, sex, reading, the outdoors. Making music is a category. Discovering music is another. He tries to avoid redundancy. For example, he only includes eight moments of joy from the sex category — obviously, there could be more. In the reading category he includes only three moments of joy, out of potentially thousands.

His largest category turns out to be the category called friend love. There are seventeen moments of joy in this category, involving sixteen different friends, most of the friends repeating. Since several of his friends in this category have also been lovers, the categories of joy begin to blur.

His second largest category is discovering music, which contains fifteen moments of joy. Third is a tie between performing and the outdoors. Fourth is a tie between sex and composing. His fifth largest category is food.

Sex and the outdoors are categories which overlap — he's starting to find this assignment pretty interesting. Food and friends overlap of course, as do performing and friends, discovering music and friends. He can't resist texting one of his friends who is in more than a quarter of the memories. This particular friend shows up in every category: sex, performing, food, reading, the outdoors, discovering music.

The text his friend sends back is gloomy. His friend has just escaped from a frustrating conversation, details unspecified, with a long-term partner.

He attempts to engage his friend in a more enjoyable conversation.

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from Passover, released October 28, 2022
Paul Pinto - lead speaker, percussion (toy bell, toy cymbal, frog, tone block, skillet, cymbal, and rachet)
Andrew Livingston - double bass, percussion
Erin Rogers - tenor saxophone, percussion
Gelsey Bell - voice, metalophone, percussion
Dave Ruder - clarinet, percussion
Jeffrey Young - violin, percussion

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thingNY is a collective of composer-performers who fuse electronic and acoustic chamber music with new opera, improvisation, theater, text, song and installation. Founded in 2006, thingNY performs experimental sound works created collaboratively by the core ensemble and by composers we like to listen to. ... more

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