8 August 1999
Mark Enslin

Unentitled libretto for a piano player

Voices:

MUSEUM DOCENT
MAX WEBER
MOVER
VOICEOVER
COP
STENOGRAPHER
PIANO OWNER
HUBBUB
NEWSCASTER 1 (EXPLETIVES)
NEWSCASTER 2 (PARTS OF SPEECH)
NEWSCASTER 3 (PUNCTUATION)
NEWSCASTER 4 (METANEWS)
NEWSCASTER 5 (NEWS FROM NOWHERE)

Spoken as if heard.

Here we have the piano, ..... an archaic analog computational mechanism for organizing time shapes --"The piano's present unshakable position rests on its universal usefulness as a means of becoming acquainted at home with almost all the treasures of musical literature, ... on the immeasurable riches of its own literature, and finally on its character as the universal instrument for the accompanist and the -- " --for organizing time shapes ... in dwellings called ..... 'offices'. It provided -- " -- and the learner. The idea of building pianos with twenty-four keys in the octave, as suggested by, for instance, Helmholtz, is not very promising, mainly for economic reasons. It would have no market amongst amateurs and would remain a mere -- " It provided a flexible tool for redressing grievances-- "--a mere virtuoso instrument. Piano building, however, depends on mass sales. For the piano is by its very musical nature bourgeois domestic instrument. . In the way that the organ needs a vast enclosed space to display its charms to best advantage, ..... the piano requires--" --redressing grievances ..... by translating groups of analogous problems-- "--requires a modestly sized room. It is thus no accident that the representatives of piano culture are the Northern peoples, whose life, for purely climatic reasons, is house-bound and centered on the 'home', ..... in contrast with the--" --by translating groups of analogous problems ..... into acoustic mappings. .... This early thought thresher was-- "--the South. ..... Because bourgeois home-comforts were, for climatic and historical reasons, not cultivated there to nearly such a great extent, the piano, a Southern invention, did not, as we saw, spread so quickly there as in the North. Even today, it has not--" This early thought thresher ..... was most likely worked by hand, as demonstrated here with a jazz key queue operated by a wax homunculus, ..... alas, a vivify effigy. "--has not to the same extent achieved the status of a piece of bourgeois 'furniture' which it has had amongst us for a long time now." ..... OK, fix or raze, John Q. Public says we gotta get you moved. ..... (Fave belongings shower out: a ratty toque, EQ mix deck, pop, jazz; ..... jam, frozen pie, 1/2 a hoagie, a box o' Quik evicted as well. A maximum ox-heavy object quake, if you please, lessor organized.) --A quick move? Jeez, how'd you get a piano on floor six, bub? ..... Aint no taj mahal. Hell, if I were you I'd divvy up, pack a squeezebox & go. (Puffy, off-key jigs bedevil a quixotic economizer. Why?) ..... Excuse me, hey, guy, you've parked double oblique off of a jut out to a tow zone. You have a license to-- We, the board of directors of-- Can I get oh I'm disturbing your concentration you something to drink. You probably have to have that's the plumbing an E sharp complete quiet. "Is out of tune there's nothing so offensive as a piano that". That sounds terrible doesn't although actually it I can't tell the difference. Who made carob-fava jello a la king pizza? Exquisite! Mmm exquisite beef fudge whiz jalapeno pink caviar--whoa! have a gin fizz julep--exquisite--mud 'your eye, bucko--exquisite hazing-- a gem wed beef jerky--rookie couple--lava--exquisite mauve waikiki couple--brazen hifi judge-- may have a gawky fizzle-- landed a job-- Exquisite Corp.-- exquisite joining of a prize domicile-- hook by vow-- exquisite vow-kidded, hope-effacing, lazy jamboree-- exquisite conjugal home movie feud kewpie bazaar-- ..... exquisite stogey-- have a marzipan jockey bedfellow-- exquisite dizzy view of-- You still majoring-- oh, uh huh, yeah, uh, buck up-- exquisite zamboni joyride-- viva fake whig couple!-- Exquisite magazine-juicy couple'll be a work-fork-food hive ... Tin men shut a res rid as hey! shed ow! ok'ed own all and toed future fro balonies at a nit apart ole! Adjectival nouns verbed nouns Friday as they verbed nouns, verbed nouns, and verbed nouns from nouns at an adjectival-noun noun noun. National Guardsmen shouted war cries Friday as they smashed windows comma knocked down walls comma and tossed furniture from balconies at a 494 hyphen unit apartment complex period. A lurid image of a recent attack by compatriot nincomtroops at a meticulously measured but unspecified location snagged attention with three vivid details recently. National Guards sang ballads and recited poetry as they washed windows, plastered walls, and hoisted furniture to balconies at a 494-unit apartment complex. ... Amazing you keep so squalid a box of jutwire havoc. ... Huh. Heavy fucker... No one 'll budge it... Jus' swipe pix. Quiz 'em. I it the can't tell that doesn't sounds terrible although actually difference. Than another why would someone say one pair of notes sounds worse. Sounds of the piano to me all the have a harsh quality. Changes but the kind of harshness changes when your way of playing. --a vivify effigy. ... The obsolescephone was a keyboard instrument which, when a key was depressed, would, by an ingenious mechanism, slam the door of one of a series of tuned refrigerators-- We, the board of directors of Kimball Intentional Inc., today-- Then they verbed the verbing nouns to verb predicate-adverbly by a time of day. Then the victims of the action were vaguely mentioned. Then they told the residents they would be out by midnight. The hey! old the raining dents to be out by might. Then they told the remaining residents to be out by midnight period... Harshness changes playing changes kind when your but the way of of. What's bad is when differences of individuals are rather properties than relations. Relationship with a qualified piano technician stretch your piano dollar establish a. Ironing out adjustment maintenance service maintenance allows homeowners to justify having servants. Excuse me, hey, guy, you've parked double oblique off of a jut out to a tow zone ... You have a license to taxi a wood-key-jeep baroque-fugue gizmo? ..... I'm gonna axe you expedite your troikaesque vehicle away, jazz buff. I'll also issue a citation-- ... "Whereas in the ancient world the hand had had to display its greatest virtuosity on the aulos, the violin and above all the piano now presented the greatest challenge." The noun verbed an adjectival noun noun that verbed date with a prefixed adjectival noun that verbed nouns and noun-verbing noun nouns. ..... The violence culminated a National Guard operation that began October with a predawn raid that included helicopters and siren hyphen blaring police cars period. Two more details emphasizing the belligerence of the action culminated a repeat of the name of the perpetrating organization and an expansion of the time and scale of the action. ..... The finishing touches culminated a National Guard operation that began October with a pre-dusk ceremony that included helicopters salsa-blaring police cars. The once clad tonal ad opera hat ban ober with a prawn aid at clue helter and sire baring pie ars. ... --slam the door of one of a series of tuned refrigerators, ..... graduated according to durability and energy efficency. Oddly, the efficiency was inversely correlated with the year of manufacture, ... so that the older fridges at the bottom of the scale ... embodied more advanced technology than the newer ones at the top. (Puffy, off-key jigs bedevil a quixotic economizer. Why? I hazard a guess: can't pay quickly, ill, low wave, axe of a job...) Here we have a life-size working model of a... museum, ... an early experiment in fusing the then antagonistic social institutions of education, distribution, preservation, and destination, .... or "tourism". ..... As you can see, "patrons" would-- ... --jutwire havoc. .... You can afford a jumbo axe; ..... why squat? like, give zip? ..... The third paragraph was the first mention of the location of the action, Puerto Rico, with an off-hand phrase obscuring the ambiguities of political, historical, and economic relations between Puerto Rico and the US, and an implication that the action is to be followed by others like it elsewhere. ..... Puerto Rico was the first part of the US where the National Guard has helped local police fight crime period. Pero i! as the fist art of the U here the nail gad has led loca lice fit rim. Proper Noun verbed the adjective of the acronym where the adjectival noun has verbed adjectival nouns to infinitive-verb mass noun. ... Puerto Rico was the first country where the US national guard has helped local squatters fight homelessness. ..... Maintenance maintenance adjustment homeowners servants ironing service justify having allows out to. Could learn myself I'm paying you to do for me something I. Nothing produced I waste your time with my piano time is pianos. I'm and you also have to listen to me redistributing your concentration. At congressional hearings last year comma they were accused of abuse comma racism comma and using excessive force in raids on public housing projects period. An ambiguous pronoun was implicated in previous acts of aggression. ..... At ogre ears as ear, hey! ere used of use, ram and ug! cess foe in rid 'n pubic using pects. As you can see, "Patrons" would stroll the aisles with carts, perusing, discussing, and collecting the artifacts on display, both durable and perishable, to take with them past the cataloging terminals to their respective "universities" ..... This next display shows a fully developed nation-state. It-- The it-biding ill pain cop but to use lees for the can gas is late for motion. I as o! ha prod ow! cos using but rents cold no! for rents. The eight hyphen building Villa Panamericana complex comma built to house athletes for the 1979 Pan hyphen American Games comma is slated for demolition period. It was to have provided low hyphen cost housing comma ..... but residents could not afford the rents period. A filling in of details and history of the site of the action was an occasion for irony. I'm gonna axe you expedite your troikaesque vehicle away, jazz buff. I'll also issue a citation of exuded juke muzak equipage behavior. JQP pays us shit to move your fuckin' deluxe wig, bozo. Aw, we've squeegeed drizzle off a Yamaha. Huh. Expect it to be junk. We, the board of directors of Kimball Intentional, Inc. today approved-- Kimball International, Inc. today disproved our company's intentions to crease domestic piano-- intentions to cease dogmestic piano operations and formally malign those capacities into-- formarly align hose capacities into the contract funiture and cabinets group. Our-- furniture and cabinets growup. Our domestic piano scales and assembly will be-- sales and assembly wile be gradually phased oust in the coming months. --out in the coming months. Deployee reemployment-- out in the coming mouths. Employee redeployment and leadership support will be-- and dealersnip support will be at the front during the transition. All-- forefront duping the transition. All ongoing commitments will be honed as the-- will be honored was the company strives to maximize assent utilization and-- to maximize asset futilization and minimize go-forward contingencies. Out Piano Group has-- contingencies. Our Piano Grout has done a commendable job in tight-sizing-- commendable job in right-siezing themselves to parallel the dramatic recline in-- parallel the dramanic decline in the domestic piano market sever the last-- piano market over the lost fifteen years. The Piano Group's evolvement undo-- The Piano Group's devolvement into a viable contract plier is a testament-- contrast supplier is a testament to their flexibility and willingness to redissect-- flexibility and wiklingness to redirect their core competencies. Realizing piranos have been-- competencies. Realsizing pianos have been a large part off our company's heritage,-- part of our chompany's heritage, sensitivities to unemployees, community, customers and suppliers-- employees, community, cutsomers and suppliers have supplicated-- employees, community, customers and compliers have complicated our shorner term 'fixes' over-- our shorter term 'fires' over the past few fears. This strategic repositioning-- few years. Thin strategic repositioning will now allow us to eliminate them-- callow us to eliminate the financial underperformance expedienced in this division as-- experienced in this division as they become better linked with out overall-- better linked wite out overall corporate business plank. It is consistent with-- plan. It in consistent with our longer term pursuit of growing Snare-- term fursuit of growling Shape Owner return-- ( ... can't pay quickly, ill, low wave, axe of a job ... ? So--) "--largely a public of amateurs confined to their--" Join now quake exhibit E to visualize a megamegacorp. .... If you'd-- ... No eviction orders were issued before Friday's raid ..... dash ..... most residents were squatters and had turned the complex into quote a center of crime unquote comma a police official said ..... period. ... No! eon or we sued bore fray rid st! resents wee quatters and had urned the cop in a cent of rime a lie offal sad. ..... No explanatory connector was inserted between a further detail emphasizing the illegality of the government action and a further vague characterization of the victims as criminals-- a simple dash did the dirty work, which was covered over by the quotation "a police offical said". ... Also and concentration have I'm listen me redistributing to to you your. ..... It sits there grinning all its several remaining possibilities mockingly gaptoothed with. ..... Is pianos frozen frozen music an instrument furniture possibilities imagination leftover projected. (So, save rue our rondeaux, pacify qualm by bazouki, what to jog? ..... Amend (coax, wake up, pique, jab) Bill of Rights, viz.: ..... Know we requisite food, guzzle, love, home, mix, job, pace; ..... shaping of equalized job mix; ..... voice at work)