EVERY NOUN UNTIL ANY NOW is a poem composed of five hundred bronze bells, each containing a single word. The poem is sounded out by more than one person, striking one bell against another. Each word has its own tone. There is no complete poem here, only possible combinations of words and tones and ways of striking one against another. The entire set of bells was handed out on the corner of 1st street and Grand Avenue in Los Angeles at midnight, to a mixture of audience exiting Walt Disney Concert Hall and those who happened to be passing by at the time. The shape of the piece is to ring and disperse. Commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic.
