This edition of the Great Learning (Paragraph 7) has 3 versions of the composition by Cornelius Cardew:

-an interactive, software based version
-a video version
-an installation version

The edition comes in a bamboo box containing a custom USB stick (with software & video recordings) and a set of 11 double-sided colour-printed cards. **NOTE** The software can be played on any Macintosh computer.

NOTES ON THE EDITION
This box by Optophono features three different realisations of 'Paragraph 7', the last of seven paragraphs or movements that together comprise the English composer Cornelius Cardew's 1969-70 opus The Great Learning. Like the other movements in The Great Learning, Paragraph 7 is scored for untrained performers (here the indication is for 'any number of untrained voices') and is based on the writings of Confucius. The composition is notated using only verbal instructions, and was originally recorded by the Scratch Orchestra, an ensemble whose ethos of inclusion and accessibility within musical practice profoundly influenced experimental musical traditions of the mid-20th century.

Realising 'Paragraph 7' reveals the composition to be as much a social enterprise as it is a musical one. [...] [Full notes available with edition]

CREDITS
The Great Learning, Paragraph 7 (1969)
by Cornelius Cardew

•Interactive Software Version (2014)
By Gascia Ouzounian and Christopher Haworth
Featuring Bird On A Wire (choir)
Software design by Christopher Haworth
Concept and visual design by Gascia Ouzounian
Recorded by Gerard Gormley, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, 2014

Installation* (2010) and Video (2014)
By Gascia Ouzounian and Conan McIvor
Featuring Bird On A Wire (choir)
Directed by Gascia Ouzounian
Edited by Conan McIvor
Filmed by Conan McIvor and Stuart Sloan
Recorded by Chris Corrigan,
Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, 2010

*The Installation version was originally
exhibited as a room-size multichannel
audio-and-video installation
at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast,
as part of the ‘Arrivals’ exhibit curated
by Ciara Hickey, Summer 2010.

BIRD ON A WIRE
Isobel Anderson,
Rachel Anne Coulter,
John D’Arcy, Emily Dedakis,
Matt Green, Claire Hall,
Ciara Hickey, Clara Kane,
Meabh Meir, Katharine Phillipa,
Caroline Pugh, Matthew Rodger,
Ricki O’Rawe, Gascia Ouzounian

Cards by Tom Hughes
Cover and logo design by Ryan O'Reilly
Edition produced by Gascia Ouzounian