UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN
A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben

UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN
A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben

2 paper vomit bags bearing Ben Vautier's rubber-stamped score Music No. 11: Soufflez et tapez (Blow and Tap).

That is the complete score. Two words. Two actions. No duration, no instrument, no performer specified. Blow anything. Tap anything. Do both. The envelope is the score, the container, and the artwork simultaneously. Much like the Disque de Musique Totale also in this box, it transforms a completely ordinary found object into a philosophical instrument by the addition of a rubber stamp.
The number 11 places it within Ben's systematic series of musical scores. Together these two works in the box represent Ben's most sustained engagement with the concept of total music: the record explores 14 ways of listening to a record without listening to it; this envelope reduces music to its most atomic possible instruction.

Ben Vautier

Part of Ben Vautier's Musique series; directly related to Disque de Musique Totale (Ben, 1963) also in this box.

2 paper vomit bags; rubber stamp impression in black ink reading "MUSIC N° 11 / SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ / Centre d'Art Total, Ben 63"

Artist multiple; event score; printed matter; Fluxus edition