25 May Clip

Posted at 23:54h in Solo/Duo, works by

solo piano [3′] 2004.

Commissioner: Daan Vandewalle
Premiere: Daan Vandewalle, Tone Roads Project, Evenings of New Music, Bratislava, Slovakia, November 26, 2004.
Program note:
Clip. to cut, snip or trim; to defraud or swindle; to strike with a sharp blow.

clip is an unreliable transcription of 3 minutes of the protest march against the Free Trade Area of the Americas on April 20, 2001. The video clip was recorded by CNN in Québec City and disseminated on the internet.

‘made mostly as a joke to knock the mollycoddles out of their boxes and to kick out the softy ears!’
— Charles Ives’ Three Page Sonata