All you need to perform Clapping Music are two pairs of hands.  It is intended to be performed as a duet: to begin, both musicians clap the same rhythm 1-2-3, 1-2, 1, 1-2.  Three quavers, quaver rest, two quavers, rest, one quaver, rest, two quavers, rest.  

Bernie Van Tiel: Een ongehoorde wereld (2016)

Antony Pitts: Anna’s Rapid Eye Movement – Act I

John Cage’s silent piece originally had the working title “Silent Prayer”. And if prayer is about anything, it’s about listening. Although a piece that, like a blank canvas in other domains of art, is likely to stir strong reactions – “it’s not art!” – in fact it can achieve something which most pieces of art do not: it has the ability to change the way one listens.

Antony Pitts: Anna’s Rapid Eye Movement – Act II

Bernie Van Tiel: Een ongehoorde wereld (2016)

Mad World was the first song which Room 33, the rock band I was in at school, tried to cover.  The harmony and melody of Tears for Fears’s iconic and particularly English-sounding song have remained with me ever since.