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CODEX EX NIHILUS MANUEL OF INSTRUCTION FOR ANY (NON-)INSTRUMENT(AL COMBINATION)S, OP.25

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CODEX EX NIHILUS

(Work in progress) Codex Ex Nihilus is a(n expanding) collection of materials of varying degrees of specificity, in which each and every element on every page – perhaps the indexing pages (Performance Directions, Objects, Schematics, and Impetus) between different sections as well – may be taken as stimuli to performative actions and non-actions. The durational, instrumental and musical choices are left entirely open to the performing artists, thus rendering each performance of (any part of) Code Ex Nihilus unique.

The execution of Codex Ex Nihilus should involve the performers choosing one page from the Performance Direction section, and amongst the other sections an equivalent number of pages (i.e. one from each, two from each, etc.) of material from each indexed sections, and combine the pages into an instructional guide towards a quasi-durational installation performance. Each resultant performance should be named by combing the title of the chosen Performance Direction instruction with the title of one of the instructional pages from the Object section.

Subtitles, in bracketed form after the main title, should be formed by combining the title of the first chosen Schematics instruction with the title of the first chosen Impetus instruction. An illustrative example would be Codex Ex Nihilus: Dialectical Superimpositions (Formulaic Concision) [P.D., Pg.1] [Ob., Pg.1] [Sch., Pg.2] [Imp., Pg.4]. For complete list of instruction titles please refer to the following page.

Codex Ex Nihilus seeks to relinquish the supposed ‘supremacy’ of the composer in the established hierarchy of musical creation, and make way for the exciting possibilities offered by live (guided) improvisation in which performers are the point of origin of the music. My role is to provide the inspiration behind the creation of these improvisational happenings that may be flexibly made suited to different performative situations.

A.L. (Nov., 2016)

CODEX EX NIHILUS List of titles

PERFORMANCE DIRECTIONS  Dialectical  Pattered  Colliding    

Distilled Coded Masonic Rhapsodic

OBJECTS  Superimpositions  Amusements  Crackdown  Contingency 

Speculation

SCHEMATICS  Definitive  Formulaic IMPETUS  Patience  Simplicity  Longevity 

Concision