THOMAS J LAX: These are scores that use words rather than musical notations. They were made by experimental composer LaMonte Young. His scores often asked people to listen to things they would usually look at, or to look at things they would typically listen to. Simone Forti:
SIMONE FORTI: Composition 1960, Number 3. Announce to the audience when the piece will begin and if there is a limit on duration, it may be of any duration. Then announce that anyone may do whatever he wishes for the duration of the composition.
ANA JANEVSKI: Young served as musical director in 1960 for the workshops that Anna Halprin led on her wooden deck. He investigated and played with natural sounds there, like setting butterflies loose. Anna Halprin remembers:
ANNA HALPRIN: He was very experimental and tried all kinds of things. I mean, he would do things like rub his fingernails against the glass windows and make these terrible sounds. He wanted to experiment and work with dancers. So, we started working together.