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ten - year poem

a scor e for text a nd voice

by Johanna Kozma

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And that they meant this thing and no other was plain from the motion of their body,

the natural language , as it were , of all nations, ex pressed by the countenance ,

glances of the eye , gestures of the limbs,

and tones of the voice , indicating the af fections of the mind ,

as it pursues, possesses , rejects , or shuns.

—the confessions of st. augustine

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notes—

Ten-Year Poem is a score† for a motet composed of texts and voices, and is to be performed in concert with a conductor. Before the concerts, the voices are recorded reading the text(s), in single audio tracks. During concerts, all tracks are mixed by the conductor and transcribed by speech-to-text software. The transcription is projected on a wall in real-time.

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Ten-Year Poem was first made to be performed in This Is All We Have In Common, the mid-residency group exhibition of the MFA in Art class of 2013 at CalArts. Thus, the texts and voices for the first iteration were composed within the framework of “Johanna Kozma’s First Year as an MFA Student in Art at CalArts, 2011–2012.”

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Future performances should respond to their sites accordingly.

† being a score for a motet—

“mo.tet,” n.1) from the Latin movere, “to move,” or a Latinized version of Old French mot, “word” or “verbal utterance.” If the word is from Latin, the name describes the movement of the different voices against one another;2) according to Margaret Bent (1997): “a piece of music in several parts with words”;3) a polyphonic composition based on a sacred text and usually sung without accompaniment.

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Ten-Year Poem was first performed in public on October 18, 2012, at California Institute of the Arts.

The Conductor was Clay Gibson.

The voices were Adam Feldmeth, Barry Stoltz, Ben Dean, Brian Doose, Chandler McWilliams, Claire Kohne, Kate Mosher Hall, Johanna Kozma, Lauralee Pope, Leslie Dick, Marie Elena Johnston, Mattia Casalegno, Michael Ned Holte, Myrrhia Reed, Páll Haukur, Tamara Rosenblum, Temra Pavlovic, Willem Henri Lucas, and Wojciech Kosma.

The texts were as follows:

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text for ADAM FELDMETH

1. “Abstraction: Politics and Possibilities” by Linda Besemer

45:12

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text for BARRY STOLTZ

1. “Monologue for a Cat” by Johanna Kozma, which was based on the cat that she and Barry Stoltz owned while they were married

01:19

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text for BEN DEAN

1. “The Ecstasy of Inf luence” by Jonthan Lethem, which is composed of works by (in order of their appearance in the Lethem essay): Harold Bloom, Richard Dienst, Michael Maar, Eric Lott, David McNair,

Jayson Whitehead, Jonathan Rosen, William Gibson, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Kembrew McLeod, Joanna Demers, Craig Baldwin, Dave Itzkoff, Richard Posner, Lewis Hyde, George L. Dillon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Ned Rorem, Mary Shelley, Kevin J.H. Dettmar, Christian Keathley, Lawrence Lessig, David Foster Wallace, Mark Hosler, Steve Erickson, Robert Boynton, Learned Hand, Jessica Litman, Henry Jenkins, Michel de Certeau, Marilyn Randall, Chris Dahlen, Emily Nussbaum, Dizzy Gillespie, David Bollier, Michael Newton, Yann Martel, John Sulston, Harry S. Truman, Marianne Moore, Steve Fuller, Amy Taubin, Sandra Day O’Connor, Rick Prelinger, Roland Barthes, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brian Wilson, Christina Stead, Saul Bellow, Walter Benjamin, Graham Rawle, Eduardo Paolozzi, David Shields, Sean Howe, Pamela Jackson, David Edelstein, and Arthur Rimbaud

54:19

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text for BRIAN DOOSE

1. a theatrical reading of CalArts Mid-Residence Review Report for Johanna Kozma for 2011 and CalArts Mentor’s Spring Report for Johanna Kozma for 2012 by California Institute of the Arts2. a shouted reading of CalArts Policy no. 2.99.24.0 on Censorship and CalArts Policy no. 3.1.83.0 on Plagiarism by California Institute of the Arts

09:41 01:48

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text for CHANDLER MCWILLIAMS

1. an excerpt from “Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth” by Richard Rorty, and“The Dance-Song” from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

04:48

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text for CLAIRE KOHNE

1. an excerpt from chapter 13 of Living My Life by Emma Goldman, with undifferentiated annotations made to the text by Claire Kohne during the first time she read it

31:39

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text for JOHANNA Kozma

1. a remix of “1 + 3 + 4” by Wojciech Kosma and “Orgasm Serenade (for Wojciech Kosma)” by Johanna Kozma

04:59

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text for KATE MOSHER HALL

1. Frequently Asked Questions about the School of Art on www.calarts.edu

05:57

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text for LAURALEE POPE

1. her notes describing her experience performing in Biblierotolalia by Johanna Kozma in July 2012; and excerpts from The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard, which she chose to use during her performance of Biblierotolalia

03:38

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text for LESLIE DICK

1. “The Rustle of Language” by Roland Barthes

10:21

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text for MARIE ELENA JOHNSTON

1. “All of Johanna Kozma’s Sexual Fantasies About People at Calarts that She Had During Her First Year and All the Good Art She Made” by Marie Elena Johnston

08:54

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text for MATTIA CASALEGNO

1. excerpts from articles by David Bock in Hayden Planetarium, Kenneth Chang in The New York Times, and staff writers at Space Daily, edited by Mattia Casalegno for Ten-Year Poem, so as to describe his relationship with Johanna Kozma

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text for MICHAEL NED HOLTE

1. an excerpt from “20 Lines a Day” by Harry Mathews

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text for MYRRHIA REED

1. a memory from her childhood with Johanna Kozma, recorded in 2011 as a note during the development of Motherload by Johanna Kozma2. another childhood memory note

01:21 00:46

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text for PÁLL HAUKUR

1. explaining The Body Without Organs by Gilles Delueze to Johanna Kozma without knowing he was being recorded2. reading an excerpt of “The Bleeding Flaneur” by John Mandel, selected by John Mandel to be read by Páll Haukur for Ten-Year Poem

07:33 05:40

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text for TAMARA ROSENBLUM

1. an excerpt from I Love Dick by Chris Kraus2. some love letters between Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud

03:41 09:02

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text for TEMRA PAVLOVIC

1. an excerpt from “House Tour” by YouTube user rMeghann

02:35

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text for WILLEM HENRI LUCAS

1. an excerpt from The Thief ’s Journal by Jean Genet2. an excerpt from Frisk by Dennis Cooper3. a memory of a recent sexual encounter in his life by Willem Henri Lucas

05:59 07:26 04:54

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text for WOJCIECH KOSMA

1. his description of the 30-hour, five-day performance of Motherload, performed at CalArts in March 2012, which was written and directed by Johanna Kozma, based on Hekabe by Euripedes as translated by Anne Carson, and which Wojciech Kosma was the only one to see in its entirety

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[program crashed before performance ended]

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acknowledgments—

Thank you to Adam Feldmeth, Barry Stoltz, Ben Dean, Brian Doose, Chandler McWilliams, Claire Kohne, Kate Mosher Hall, John Mandel, Lauralee Pope, Leslie Dick, Marie Elena Johnston, Mattia Casalegno, Michael Ned Holte, Myrrhia Reed, Páll Haukur, Tamara Rosenblum, Temra Pavlovic, Willem Henri Lucas, and Wojciech Kosma. Your voices in my life are a great gift.

Thank you to Clay Gibson.

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For the elf and the alien, and for CalArts.