А. Монастырский, Н. Панитков, И. Макаревич, Е. Елагина, С ...

form the Chia Jen hexagram ("Family"); then the first line (Xian hexagram, "flow"); the third line (Guan
hexagram, "contemplation"), the sixth (Bi hexagram, "approaching") and the fifth (Kun, "performance").
Moscow region, Savyolovskaya railway line, field near the village of Kyevy Gorky
27 th of October, 1985
N.Panitkov, A.Monastyrski, E.Elagina, I.Makarevich, G.Kizewalter, V.Salnikov
Viewers:
I.Kabakov, V.Mochalova, A.Filippov, D.Machibeli, I.Bakshtein, Yu.Leiderman, B.Mikhailov,
I.Pivovarova
41. SCORE (Sound perspectives of the vocal space)
The action took place at Monastyrski‘s apartment and involved the recording of the "Score" soundtrack.
The expositional set of the action included four black boards of various sizes nailed to the walls of the
room. White ropes were wound round the nails.
The audience received eight copies of the "Score" text, each of these was represented by a stack of
photographic copies (30x24 cm) of the aforementioned text printed in reverse (white letters against black
background) and glued to cardboard sheets.
The audience was prompted to look through the text of "Score". As the lights were out during the
demonstration of the slide sequence, each viewer was given an electric torch to read the text with.
On the day before the performance the same text was read aloud and tape-recorded by Monastyrski, full
stops and hyphens marked by clanging of a typewriter and ringing of a bell respectively.
As soon as the lights were out and the audience began reading the text of "Score", Monastyrski who was
standing beside a wall/screen and S.Romashko sitting in an armchair turned on a Walkman and while
listening to the soundtrack via headphones, began vocalizing the marked orthographic signs (Monastyrski
–full stops and Romashko – hyphens).
This part of the action lasted 15 minutes. At the same time slides of "The Wall" series were projected on a
screen. A sequence of 30 slide photographs pictured bare papered walls of Monastyrski‘s apartment in
locations covered with black boards during the action. Besides that, in the course of these 15 minutes
S.Letov manipulated a sound modulator with "Musical dropper" to produce a 8-minute-long looped
minimal rhythmic sequence (piano, Monastyrski).
Then, proceeding to the second part of the performance, Monastyrski repeated aloud text recorded on the
Walkman cassette (as a sequel of the "Score") and dedicated to the Iron Flute and inserted an iron rod of
Totoki-Tosui (which he had been holding in his hands) into a rectangular black box with a label: "The
Reutovo Station. Next stop is Zheleznodorozhnaya". This box was on a bigger black box previously used
during the "Translation" performance, but for the "Score" it was slightly changed: electric torches were
removed and a single blue flashing light was inserted. Two holes on the box‘s left side were covered with
red glass filter, while the two on the right side produced a bluish effect.
A board-screen, previously used during the "Discussion" performance (although its marking signs were
covered with iron sheets) was sitting on this box. The slide sequence was projected on it in the course of
the action.
Parallel to the box and opposite to its two right holes, a mace-shaped large iron rod was lying on the floor.
Its slide photograph opened the demonstration of "The Wall" sequence (in the first part of the
performance).