Scenario Sounds Nina Yankowitz Part I. - Part II. Texts and audio including a script of color scores to perform. The libretto and visual script to perform the opera are instructed by following abstract visual directives reflecting tonal pitches, voice inflections, and imitating accents extracted from various dialects. Colors and line strokes direct the eyes along scanning paths for reading texts and the arrangement of chromatic sequences also phrase and guide the tempo of the piano score. Part I. Personae Mimickings Or Voices From The Piano The piece portrays the multiple voices within one person. In public performances, the text is heard through speakers bellowing operatic voices mimicking various languages while the pianist plays the piano by reading an abstract color score. For example, in a French sounding dialect, “THE I” is THE GIRLHOOD FLIRT OF YEARNINGS, while in another passage “THE I” is THE TORTURED SPIRIT WAGNER RIPPED is portrayed by an intense staccato Germanic sounding voice. The self-doubting voice of THE BAROQUE THE BELL OF APPETITE extols the sounds of timidity, insecurity, and fearfulness, transmitted via a Nordic sounding accent. Part II. Ethnographic Weavings & Exchanging Contexts Changing ETHNOGRAPHIC WEAVINGS is an audiocassette rendition portraying sounds of voices that were extracted from various ethnic communities that comprise New York City. The Vocal recordings and dialects were composed with a Vocoder that electronically stretched a cacophony of woven voices into an instrumental musical chorus. The scenario has no beginning and no end and is staged in- the-round with THE HE and THE SHE continually in process of Exchanging Contexts Changing.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Edition Opera of 30 with six 8 ½” x 11” silkscreen hand signed prints by artist, with signed painting on paper included and audiocassette Street Editions 1981 - Reprint with CD ©2007 NY Art Projects LLC. Visual scores, texts, and audio 1978-79 ©Nina Yankowitz - Introduction by Joyce Kozloff Limited Edition Opera of 220 - book of six 8 ½” x 11” silkscreen prints hand signed by artist with audio cassette, Street Editions1981, Reprint CD ©2007 NY Art Projects LLC.

Personae Mimickings Or Voices From The Piano PERFORMANCES include:

1981 12th International Sound Poetry Festival, Washington Square Church, NYC, Piano, Nina Yankowitz, Flute, Charles Doria and AndOr Orand 1981 Leah Levy Gallery, San Francisco Caifornia, Piano Nina Yankowitz 1981 The Avante Garde Festival, "Sound Tapes" New York City 1982 St. Marks Church Celebration Concert for Jackson Mac Low

PUBLICATIONS Scenario Sounds excerpts and related scripts include:

1980 Scenarios: Scripts to Perform, Richard Kostelanetz, Assembling Press ISBN 0915066427

Performance Art, Collected Writings Anthology of theatrical/performative scripts conceived of as companion to Breakthrough Fictioneers and Essaying Essays.

Scenario Sounds Franklin Furnace Archive Museum of Modern Art DADABASE, New York 1980, 2000-07, distributed by Printed Matter, New York 2012 Reprinted portions WAJ, “Re-Rights-Re-Writes NINA YANKOWITZ” Joyce Beckenstein 2011 Exhibited Scenario Sounds at The Museum of Modern Art, Kiev, Russia 1982 Sonorità prospettiche: Perspective sonorities-Franco Masotti, Scenario Sounds, Italy

Sala comunale d'arte contemporanea (Rimini –Music) 1980 Anthology, Text-Sound Texts, William Morrow, Inc. New York, ISBN 0688036163 1978 New Wilderness Letter, Jerome Rothenberg, "Notes from the Ground", Vol.1, No.5 1979 Scenario Series, Anthology R. Kostelanetz, Critical Assembling 1979 Voices of the Eye, hand-bound book, Nina Yankowitz, publisher Stefanotti Gallery NYC