Peter Lemmens
notes for a speech
2020
sheet music, live piano performance, annotations
25 x A4 pages (recto), approximately 26 minutes
unique
A historical speech is transcribed as sheet music. The actual words are omitted and the discourse is flattened to elementary notes and rhythm. A placeholder sound piece unfolds as a pianist performs the piece: a karaoke, instrumental version of a speech as a setting for possible other words.