the wall
composed by 54 people over a period of 12 months.
In 2006 I stopped throwing stuff away. The kitchen got full of plastic milk cartons. And the green tops. Eventually the council put a plastic recycle bin outside my flat so the cartons went into that.
1st January - 31st December 2007 every visitor to the flat put a green bottle top up on the wall - postman, alsatian dog whoever - they got their bit of blue tac and a bottle top and hummed and hahed and made a decision.
February 2008 I drew the stave, over and within the dots, and since then various folk have been interpreting this.
The individual interpretations can be viewed on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/atoznumbers09
In January 2009 thirteen musicians gathered in my kitchen and performed the score before it was finally cleared away. In homage to the Marx Brothers ‘Night at the Opera’ we made a film of everyone arriving and piling into the kitchen - but this was accidentally deleted - the only surviving scene being this: