Stein Phase: Instructions for a Performance in 6 Movements (2009).
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1. Find a recording of Gertrude Stein reciting a poem.
Play the recording. Listen carefully.
Repeat everything Gertrude Stein says immediately after she says it.
Do not recite the poem.
If you have accidentally memorized any part of the poem, do not anticipate it.
Listen carefully. Repeat everything you hear right after you hear it.
Do not say the wrong word or stop speaking or laugh.
Do not fall behind.
Finish speaking right after Gertrude Stein does.
2. Find a recording of Gertrude Stein reciting her poem.
Play the recording. Repeat everything Stein says.
Do not recite the poem.
Listen carefully, repeating everything you hear.
Do not say the wrong word.
Do not fall behind.
Do not laugh.
3. Find a recording.
Play the recording.
Repeat everything.
Listen carefully.
Repeat everything you hear.
Find a recording.
Play the recording. Listen.
Repeat.
4. Find the recording of Gertrude Stein reciting Picasso performing.
Play carefully, repeating while listening.
Do not rememorize the listening. Repeat, she says.
Do immediately the right word right after she says.
Do not incite Gertrude Stein. Anticipate it careful.
Play the repeat everything after she.
Relisten.
5. Find Gertrude Stein. Play the repeating recording.
Everything repeats insights. Deliberate delights.
Do not say the right after wrong. Gertrude Stein says Picasso listen.
Play to Gertrude Stein but not laughs.
List then to Finnish speaking.
Find a trued stein. Lay the peat in chords.
Say very thing severing severely.
Serve Picasso your ear.
Glisten laughs in behind.
Fins peak after.
[6. Performance follows instructions.]
Play the recording. Listen carefully.
Repeat everything Gertrude Stein says immediately after she says it.
Do not recite the poem.
If you have accidentally memorized any part of the poem, do not anticipate it.
Listen carefully. Repeat everything you hear right after you hear it.
Do not say the wrong word or stop speaking or laugh.
Do not fall behind.
Finish speaking right after Gertrude Stein does.
2. Find a recording of Gertrude Stein reciting her poem.
Play the recording. Repeat everything Stein says.
Do not recite the poem.
Listen carefully, repeating everything you hear.
Do not say the wrong word.
Do not fall behind.
Do not laugh.
3. Find a recording.
Play the recording.
Repeat everything.
Listen carefully.
Repeat everything you hear.
Find a recording.
Play the recording. Listen.
Repeat.
4. Find the recording of Gertrude Stein reciting Picasso performing.
Play carefully, repeating while listening.
Do not rememorize the listening. Repeat, she says.
Do immediately the right word right after she says.
Do not incite Gertrude Stein. Anticipate it careful.
Play the repeat everything after she.
Relisten.
5. Find Gertrude Stein. Play the repeating recording.
Everything repeats insights. Deliberate delights.
Do not say the right after wrong. Gertrude Stein says Picasso listen.
Play to Gertrude Stein but not laughs.
List then to Finnish speaking.
Find a trued stein. Lay the peat in chords.
Say very thing severing severely.
Serve Picasso your ear.
Glisten laughs in behind.
Fins peak after.
[6. Performance follows instructions.]