TEXT SCORE FOR TEXT SCORES, by Christopher DeLaurenti
Christopher DeLaurenti makes sound works for installations, albums, live performances, and radio broadcasts ranging from N30: Live at the WTO Protest November 30, 1999 (2000) to echolocation: (Return to the Cooling Tower, Satsop) (2023). His text scores include “I am the Messiah!” and notoriously, By Reading This You Are Performing This Score So Give Me 50 Cents (for any number of performers and a functioning postal system). Much of his sound work is usually free and mostly on-line.