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Video still: Tom De Roeck Herbert Brün: a composer is that without which something would not have happened 2012 Performance & text paraflows 6: Listening Comprehension, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna MEMBRA DISJECTA FOR JOHN CAGE. freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL/MQ, Vienna Original score by Kuo Chih-Yuan Performers (Interlocutors): Angélica Castelló, Michael Fischer, Samu Gryllus, Didi Kern, Volkmar Klien, Jörg Piringer, Andrea Sodomka, Hans Wagner, Ruei-Ran Wu   A group of Vienna-based musical thinkers are invited to get together and to discuss the way the music of an unspecified classical operatic composition is to sound. Staging publicly at "das weisses haus”, the unscripted discussion proceeds as a performance, while being recorded on audio/video. Over the course of the aforementioned discussion, the resulting conclusion as to how to realize the piece musically including the possibilities of physical movements, visual communication, use of unorthodox instruments etc. is transposed into an instructional text to be exhibited at "MEMBRA DISJECTA FOR JOHN CAGE. Wanting to Say Something About John" in freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL / MQ, Vienna Interpreting a classical music composition absent of its authorial preconception, Herbert Brün: a composer... explores John Cage’s proposition of open process rather than realizing a composer's prescribed directives. It creates a shared space wherein the score is reversely reconstructed through the participants’ dialogues indeterminately. In conceiving a set of activities to re-imagine the original music, the participants collectively attempt to compose the audience’s attention at the discussion-based performance and the subsequent exhibition, as the audience is invited to listen/read the unauthorized literation and to further concoct their own version of the musical performance. A classical music piece thus has a potential to become something unpredictable and mysterious.