Still Not Playing That Guitar

This conceptual recording documents two performances of the following ‘score’:

Put a guitar on a table,
But don’t play the guitar,
Focus on the guitar on the table,
Don’t play the guitar,
Stay focused on the guitar on the table,
Still, do not play the guitar.

During these specific performances, the output of an ovation guitar goes through a bunch of stomp boxes and is then fed back into the guitar using piezo transducers. Thus the guitar’s body substitutes for a speaker. As the piezo transducers are attached to its saddle and bridge as well as to the strings, the guitar in a way plays ‘itself’. The performer is obliged just to watch and to concentrate but not to judge or to interact.

In "Rule #11: Don’t drink and solder", Nicolas Collins’ eleventh rule of hardware hacking (www.nicolascollins.com) serves as the score for sort of a musical performance, or: preparing the piezo transducers for "Still Not Playing That Guitar".

Still Not Playing That Guitar I (7 minute excerpt)
Still Not Playing That Guitar II (7 minute excerpt)
Rule #11: Don’t drink and solder