The Transit

 play music from my sampler machine on the public bus and the subway (giving a concert) meeting and being with a random travelling audience.  Play music, two days in a row, on different busses and on the subway. 

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- not interact with anyone. 

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There was a mixed response from the audience, some people liked that I was playing, others did not pay attention and some came to talk with me and shared that they also wanted to make music. Others asked me about the machine, the speaker and how it worked. I was quickly reminded that performance in a public space needs to open for a possibility of some form of interacting, because a part of it is always a social experiment for me. I tried to understand how I appeared, if my appearance was a disturbance. It was interesting for me to stay in this situation for a long while. Observing and creating at the same time.

 

The action in itself was the score. There is no rehearsal, and there is no introduction and there is also no set order. I link this to the artist Allan Kaprow and his approach to a “happening”, where the situation is making the dramaturgy and when art and life gets blurred in a real place in real time. Not on stage, but in life. I wanted to see how I work when meeting the public, where I don't have control of how and who and when something will happen. 

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