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Date: Saturday 29 January 2005
Duration: 15 minutes
Venue: Tate Modern
Event: The Sound of Heaven and Earth
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Composer's Notes
The Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep (sic) by Olias Nil
'the sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick' is reputed to be the most difficult tongue-twister in english. using this tongue-twister may be a breach of copyright. at the very least, i've relinquished any claim of total authorship. but that's cool, i haven't told the players what to play either. all i'm doing is asking them to copy each other's sounds. the title copies the original tongue-twister's sound. but on paper, it gets it wrong. it may be guilty, then, of copywrong. but the point of a tongue-twister is to copy wrong. if it were easily copied right, it wouldn't be a tongue-twister. That little (sic) at the end means it was wrong to begin with & that being wrong is acceptable. this piece is about copying wrong and having that little (sic) at your disposal - not apologetically, but philosophically. I might have called it 'toy boat'.
Performance Archive
Instrumentation included: Bass by John Edwards, Bass Saxaphone by Tony Bevan, Electronics by Andrew Morgan, Flutes by David Toop, Harp by Rogeri Davis, and Cello by Neil Heyde.
Performance Recording:
As illustrated by the images above and below, during both the rehearsal and performance, Olias Nil followed his own written script (as provided below), weaving his way amongst the musicians, whispering instructions.
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Compositional Score
The scores could take any form, from verbal instruction, found sound and poetry, to other music, so long as it is delivered exclusively in audio, with no written text, conducting, physical cues or gestures.
Audio Score:
Download visual and written representations of the score as spoken in real time during the performance by Olias Nil, moving physically amongst the ensemble and whispering instructions in cycles, as noted in the downloadable documents.
| 6th Sick Sheik Script .pdf |
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| 6th Sick Sheik Table .pdf |
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| Notes on 6th Sheik .pdf |
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Composer's Biography
Olias Nil, I am aka Seth Kim-Cohen, organixer of SofH&E. I make music and writing and situations in which art which might otherwise not have happened happens
(like SofH&E, which I think of as a situational composition). I've made 7 albums of rock-based music, most recently with The Fire Show (RIP). I've written cultural and music criticism, first
for my own Pop-Stock 'zine and later for 'reputable' outlets like the Chicago Reader and Pitchfork. I host One Reason To Live on Resonance FM. I'm writing a PhD on not-quite-rightness at the
London Consortium. I was paralyzed once. but that's not important.
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