Jude Weirmeir Scores Another! (San Diego, California, USA)

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Mail art by IUOMA member Jude Weirmeir (San Diego, California, USA)

May 1, 2015 - Musician and composer Jude Weirmeir sent me two great pieces that involve what I consider to be non-traditional musical scoring. Lines between auditory and visual art genres are blurred in this work. We even find a connection to food and taste. Given the nature of these scores, they could safely be called event scores. They could be considered scripts for performance art as well. I am not surprised Jude Weirmeir would invoke Fluxus on the reverse side:

The piece is fun and a visual poem in its own right; this is a real example of Intermedia. Fluxus folk are and have been and involved with the art-in-life aspects of food, including the performance dimension. Alison Knowles’ classic The Identical Lunch performance is another example:

Jude Weirmeir has made a substantial contribution in the area as well.

A second piece received from Jude Weirmeir also uses the event score format:

I amreminded of classic event scores by George Brecht in particular; and of course John Cage compositions serve as a larger prototype. Here is the Drip Music score by George Brecht:

Here is the reverse side of the card from Jude Weirmeir:

Deepest thanks to Jude Weirmeir for sending these mail art compositions-event scores. I am always thrilled to add material like this to the MinXus Archives.