Well I want it in writing

EXCERPT 1: FOLLOW ME INTO A SOLO
STEVE POTTER, prepared piano, imitating & responding to Cecil Taylor
STEPHEN HASTINGS-KING, prepared piano on screen, imitating & responding to Cecil Taylor
RICARDO WILSON, video technician & director
KÉLINA GOTMAN, silent presence
with video footage of CECIL TAYLOR, piano (1981)

EXCERPT 2: THE SMALLEST EVENT AS A COLORFUL GIANT PUPPET
Also featured in Charles Ogilvie, “The Principles of Collision”
(currently unavailable)

JESSICA ELEY, amplified cello
DANIEL GINESTIER, Feynman diagrams for the score
MEREDITH McCOY, amplified violin
CHRISTOPHER MILLER, bonang barung
CHARLES OGILVIE, concept
STEVE POTTER, prepared piano, toy piano

Well I want it in writing is the first instantiation of a project exploring the paradoxical power dynamics bound up with cross-cultural borrowing by middle-class Americans of the predominantly racialized music of their Others, both within the United States and far outside of it. It aims to trouble the rigidity of categories through which we understand the positioning of people within society. It also aims to criticize this troubling of rigid categories. It does not aim at noise, but it is noise.