© Jeannette Munoz
Stück ("piece") is a score of no less then 4000 pages, where every page may only be performed once. It consists of 160.000 time units. One time unit consists of 6 seconds of sound, followed by 6 seconds of silence. The total duration is 533 hours 20 minutes. Werder started working on the score in 1997, and performed the pages 1-3 in December 1997. Over the course of 1998, he worked on the concept of both the ongoing writing project and its one successive and intermittent performance. However, the pages of that year's performances still had been selected by chance operation. In March 1999, the performance restarted at page 95. In 2001, reaching page 4000, he stopped writing. At STUK the performance will continue starting at page 601.
Performance history
pages 001-003 Dec 19, 1997, Sucre (BOL), piano
Pages 095-102 March 3, 1999, Zürich, cello, 64'
pages 103-106 March 28, 1999, Paris, piano, 25'24"
pages 106-134 April 1-30,1999, Chicago
(April 6: 4'36" gt; April 8: 23'48" cl, acc; April 9: 36" perc, gt; April
10: 6'36" trp, perc, 2 gt; April 11: 28'12" oboe, trb, gt; April 13: 10'12"
trb, acc, voice; April 14: 26'24" trb; April 15: 26'24" trb, mouthorgan,
tuner; April 17: 21'12" trp, perc; April 24: 25'12" gt; April 27: 26'36"
va; April 28: 24'36" pno; April 29: 1' va, perc, 2 gt, acc,
mouthorgan)
pages 134-164 August 21-22, 1999, Cologne, synthesizer, 4 x 1 hour
pages 164-224 October 18-25, 1999, Basel, piano, 8 x 1 hour
pages 224-232 February 2, 2000, Zürich, viola, 1 hour
pages 232-242 September 23, 2000, Zürich, bassoon, 83'12"
pages 242-244 March 14, 2001, Aarau, trombone, 2 x 8'
pages 244-253 March 21, 2001, Zürich, trombone, 74'
pages 254-298 May 24-25, 2001, Rotterdam, piccolo, alto flute, 2 x 3
hours
pages 299-302 July 1, 2001, London, piano, 32'
pages 303-310 November 14, 2001, Los Angeles, guitar, 64'
pages 311-334 June 11, 2002, New York City, 64' trombone, 64'
electric
guitar, 64' doublebass
pages 335-342 November 20, 2002, Buenos Aires, piano, 64'
pages 343-348 December 6, 2002, Los Angeles, 16' tube xylophone, 16'
piano, 16' guitar
pages 349-516 August 18 to September 7, 2003, Zürich, euphonium, 21 x
64'
pages 517-518 October 2, 2003, London, piano, guitar, melodica, 16'
pages 519-530 October 3-5, 2003, Dortmund, organ, 3 x 32'
pages 531-532 December 17, 2003, Huddersfield, organ pipes, small casio
keyboard, 16'
pages 533 December 18, 2003, London, organ pipes, small casio
keyboard, 8'
pages 534-535 May 2, 2004, Aarau, bassflute, viola, 16'
pages 536-551 December 17, 2004, Basel, piano, 4 x 32'
pages 552-581 February 6, 2005, Düsseldorf, piano, 4 hours
pages 582-589 September 10, 2005, Berlin, piano, 64'
pages 590-591 December 10, 2005, Los Angeles, small orchestra, 16'
pages 592-597 March 20, 2008, Düsseldorf, piano, 48'
pages 598-599 July 8, 2009, London, 2 violins, 16'
pages 600 September 12, 2009, Aarau, clarinet, cello, 8'
pages 601-? February 9-14, 2010, Leuven
