User:Rwjh/sandbox

Browsing Wikipedia is a piece for any number of instrumentalists or performers, composed by Richard Hughes.

Setup
The piece begins here with all performers watching the same screen, whether that be by a video call, in real life or through any other medium. Performing does not begin until the first random Wikipedia article is loaded

Reader
There is one reader in charge of browsing Wikipedia which the other performers use as a score. The reader’s job is to read the articles and respond to the listeners' responses (outlined below). The reader decides when the piece ends by closing Wikipedia.

Listener
Every other performer is a listener. Listeners respond to articles based on these instructions:
 * To keep listening to the article: be silent.
 * If you find the article interesting: pulse or arpeggiate notes.
 * To navigate to the most recent blue link: play a short note (⪅ 1 second).
 * To navigate to a random article: play a long note (⪅ 3 seconds).

Listeners can play any pitch, only duration and rhythm is indicated.

Questions

 * How independent will readers act?
 * Will they consider themselves as a browsing collective and perform succinctly?
 * Will certain listeners troll?
 * What will be interesting to readers?
 * Perhaps unanimous interest in articles? Or not?
 * What will we learn?