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  • Current & Recent
    • Gozo 2023
    • Mission Street Arts
    • Cagevent 2{020}2
    • The Sable Project 2021
    • Runescores (2020)
    • Pattern Bald Patterns 2020-21
  • Intermedia Projects
    • Artists in Residence >
      • Mission Street Arts
      • The Sable Project 2021
      • Buinho Creative Hub
      • SERDE, Aizpute, Latvia
      • Vanha Paukku, Lapua Finland
      • Cowwarr Art Space 2016
      • Fulbright in Riga, Latvia
      • Arteles Residency - 2012
      • Arte Studio Ginestrelle
    • Intermedia Performance >
      • Cagevent 2{020}2 >
        • Cagevent sound scores
        • Cagevent original texts
        • Cagevent mutated texts
      • Runescores (2020) >
        • Runescore 1 Mannaz
        • Runescore 2 Gebo
        • Runescore 3 Ansuz
        • Runescore 4 Othila
        • Runescore 5 Uruz
        • Runescore 6 Perth
        • Runescore 7 Nauthiz
        • Runescore 8 Inguz
        • Runescore 9 Eiwaz
        • Runescore 10 Algiz
        • Runescore 11 Fehu
        • Runescore 12 Wunjo
        • Runescore 13 Jera
        • Runescore 14 Kano
        • Runescore 15 Teiwaz
        • Runescore 16 Berkana
        • Runescore 17 Ehwaz
        • Runescore 18 Laguz
        • Runescore 19 Hagalaz
        • Runescore 20 Raido
        • Runescore 21 Thurisaz
        • Runescore 22 Dagaz
        • Runescore 23 Isa
        • Runescore 24 Sowelu
        • Runescore 25 Odin
      • Pattern Bald Patterns 2020-21
      • Buinho Stop Motion Videos
      • LPL Modular Play >
        • LPL MP Process
        • LPL MP Text
        • Performance Iterations >
          • reactivating exquisite corpse
          • Virtually Real
          • Clusterflock Ritual
        • LPL MP Collaborators
      • SERDE Istabas
      • Time the great unleveler
      • Aizpute stop-motion videos
      • Nameless, but in sight
      • The Great Finnish Licorice Taste Test
      • The Place Where I Start
      • Ghost Town: Pareidolia
      • Laptop Performance Laboratory
      • Global Corporeality
      • Sometimes it works, Sometimes it doesn't
    • InterMedia Installations >
      • Illuminating Site Birdsong >
        • Illuminating Site Birdsong Lanterns
        • Illuminating Site - Birdsong Window Gardens
        • Illuminating Site Star Pasture
      • Illuminating Site - Messejana, Portugal >
        • Illuminating Site Lanterns
      • House of Morgado in a Jar
      • Birch Loops
      • Arteles Residency - 2012
      • Appartengono-Ginestrelle
      • Altars - Ginestrelle 2011
    • Site Specific Works
    • Site Specific Festivals >
      • Kontaining/Ptarmigan
      • Big Dance/Little Space
      • Headlines
      • Train
      • SiteWorks 2009
      • SiteWorks 2006
    • Photo Essays >
      • Pattern Bald Patterns 2020-21
      • The Great Finnish Licorice Taste Test
      • Cobblestones, Riga 2014
      • The Birds of Kuldīga, Latvia 2014
      • Soil, Finland 2012
      • Bogs, Finland 2012
      • Ice Rink, Finland 2012
      • Birch Grove, Finland 2012
      • Understory, Finland 2012
      • Orange Poles, Finland 2012
      • Birch Close Up, Finland 2012
      • Wall Blur, Finland 2012
  • Theatrical Works
    • Joint Theatrical Works >
      • Stories from the Park
      • Grass is Green
      • Rue for Ophelia
      • Double Blind Sided
      • The Rule of Life
      • Landscaping for Privacy
      • Shaking the Yoke
      • XY
      • On the Backs of Our Mothers
      • Migrant
      • Grudge Match
      • Grudge Match: ReMatch
      • Subcutaneous
      • Zaum: Beyond Significance
      • In God We Trust
      • world forgetting by the world forgot
      • Mystical Bedlam
    • Garibaldi Repertory Works >
      • Realm of Shades (2014)
      • Masquerade (2013)
      • Suits (2012)
      • Forbidden Fruit (2011)
      • Push (2010)
      • At the Threshold (2009)
      • Something's Fishy (2006)
      • Anticipatory Illumination (2004)
    • Zmolek Repertory Works >
      • InDecision (2016)
      • Alone Together (2016)
      • Songs of Europe (2015)
      • I hear the noise of many waters (2014)
      • Tombo e Guerreiro (2013)
      • Zaum Etude #7 (2012)
      • They Stole a Necklace of 5 Million Pearls (2011)
      • Home is Where You Are (2009)
      • Something's Fishy (2006)
      • Not Yet Become (2006)
      • virtually At this moment In real time (1999)
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The Project
Spring 2020, rummaging through the bins in the depths of our closets, Jo uncovered Paul's new age bundle of Rune Stones, Tarot cards, and crystals that had been in storage since the ‘80s. The stones and cards were placed on the dining table, thinking that we could maybe utilize them in our artistic research.

Preparations for our Cagevent 2{020}: Sometimes it works, Sometimes it doesn’t Redux at the {re}Happening Festival at the historic site of the Black Mountain College included a revisiting of Fluxus events, John Cage’s seminal book “Silence: Lectures and Writings” and William Fetterman’s incredibly detailed “John Cage’s Theatre Pieces: Notations and Performances”. Unfortunately {re}Happening had to be canceled due to the pandemic but our research sparked an interest in exploring Cage’s aleatoric approach to creating indeterminant scores structured with time brackets for actions to occur.

Neither of us are familiar with the I Ching (John Cage's oracular device), but we had the tarot cards and the rune stones and a "why don't we" challenge quickly emerged. The seventy eight cards in the tarot deck were a bit whelming so we opted for the smaller collection of twenty five runes and Runescores emerged. Runescores is a group-sourced collaborative project of performance scores structured in response to each of twenty-five rune stones of the Norwegian Runic System. In the egalitarian spirit of Fluxus, a non-curated call to participate was published via social media. Participants received one of the scores determined by drawing a rune from the bag. From this, collaborators solved the score, creating responses in the medium(s) of their choice and submitted digital files for this online installation.

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5 Uruz
Strength

4 Othila
Retreat

3 Ansuz
Signals

2 Gebo
Partnership

1 Mannaz
The Self


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10 Algiz
Protection

9 Eihwaz
Defense

8 Inguz
Fertility

7 Nauthiz
Constraint

6 Perth
Initiation




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15 Teiwaz
Warrior

14 Kano
Opening

13 Jera
Harvest

12 Wunjo
Joy

11 Fehu
Possessions


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20 Raido
Journey

19 Hagalaz
Disruption

18 Laguz
Flow

17 Ehwaz
Movement

16 Berkana
Growth



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25 Odin
The Unknowable

24 Sowelu
Wholeness

23 Isa
Standstill

22 Dagaz
Breakthrough

21 Thurisaz
Gateway


The Process
Scores corresponding to each of the runes were created. The draw of fifteen stones (determined by the number of operations that fit neatly on the line paper in Paul's notebook) ordered the score of actions. Guided by Ralph Blum's The Book of Runes, actions were defined by 'significant' words (a technique from our dialogic devising methodology) extracted from Blum's description of each corresponding rune (the interpretation of each significant word is always the problem the collaborating artist must solve).

Based upon the number of the rune (as presented by Blum) and following the structural logic of John Cage's time brackets, the timing of each event was progressively notated as either positive or negative: if a rune drawn was upright, time was notated as positive; if the rune drawn was reversed, time was notated as negative. The shortest score is 1:26, the longest score is 5:19.

While each individual work is complete in itself, viewing all of the works successively with their accompanying process statements provides a fuller sense of the project as a unified work.  Navigate the site via stone icons and the sidebar.

A larger screen and headphones are recommended for best viewing experience.


Logan Castro (20)
Bridget Close (16)
Joséphine A. Garibaldi (1, 2, 7, 12, 19)
Robert W. Dillon, Jr. (18)

Aaron Ellis (9)
Mandy Herrick (22, 25)
Gary Lappier (17)
Katie Stricker Lappier (13)
Aigars Larionovs (23)
Julie Leir-VanSickle (4, 21)

David Ollington (3)
Cathy Santome (5)
Jennifer Wolbrecht (6)
Gary Zmolek (24)
Paul Zmolek (2, 11, 14, 15, 18, 19)



Runescores is an ongoing project.   Contact us to participate
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