Vial Sounds

On March 7th, almost two months ago now, Nadja Sayej mailed me a small package that held the following vials filled with music.


Nadja Sayej, "Eight Notes Sang into Bottles," with Explanation (March 2005)
Also included in the package was a sheet explaining her techniques:

A B C D E F G. Alinear alphabet, the vocabulary of music. How can infinite sounds be produced from such a limited palette? Each not captured in time (recorded or not) is a unique statment [sic] in time.

This is a wonderful conceptual piece, each vial holding the remains of a note Nadja had sung into it.

un violon d'ingres