The score for this piece consists of 60 individual loose-leaf sheets. These were produced in September 2009, when I bought a Day-Saver ticket from Birmingham New Street bus station and spent the day travelling around the city with a marker pen, letting the motion of the bus guide my hand.
The first performance was given on December 15th 2009 at The Old Joint Stock theatre in Birmingham. The ensemble was a trio of keyboard players who were using ‘sustaining’ sounds on their synthesiser keyboards (sounds such as ‘organ’ which don’t have a decay.) To interpret the pages, the players used paint rollers to play the keyboards, treating the middle of the page as middle C and moving the roller to trace the line. Each player had a referee whistle in their mouth, a tambourine on their left foot, and a whoopie cushion on their right foot. These were played to represent the blue dots. The pages of the score were attached to music stands with string, so they could be ripped off and thrown on the floor once they had been played.



Performances
15 December 2009, Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham
5 April 2011, Birmingham Conservatoire
3 November 2011, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle
2 April 2014, Frontiers Festival, Birmingham
20 June 2017, CODA Festival, Birmingham
5 January 2019, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin
11 May 2025, Theatre Development Centre, Cork
