Compose140

@compose140 vacuum and voice duet in 1 room, washing machine with rap in another and hair dryer with opera aria in the bath. At same piece.

@compose140 identify today's earworm then sing it to yourself in all public contexts to make it social media

Conspire with other members of your ensemble to continue playing for eight bars after the end of the piece, without telling the conductor.

Hand driers connected to harmonicas so that, if used in the right order, they play "Blowing in the Wind". (Matt Le Mare)

Suspended chainsaws swinging randomly over a large pile of polystyrene blocks, so that the saws cut into the polystyrene. (Matt Le Mare)

Two very loud soundsystems on mountaintops, playing 30 second clips of music with mountain in the title. Audience in valley. (Matt Le Mare)

"It’s only me" - for two people/two doors. Starts with knock and say title. Loud improvised chat ends with doors slammed shut. (Neil Deakin)

Playing a cello enthusiastically inside a very resonant metal box that is slightly too small to allow the bow to move freely.

Speakers in street drains. Songs referring to streets played to unsuspecting passersby, e.g. Baker St, Long and Winding Rd (Matt Le Mare)

4 players take turns tearing paper, after 5 seconds start leaving an decreasing silence between tears. Ends with frenzy. (Neil Deakin)

Use a wrecking ball to start a domino effect with enormous pieces of thick glass that get smaller in size until very small. (Matt Le Mare)

Drop a piano into a skip, record it. The audience sings “Right said Fred...had a cup of tea”; recording is played backwards. (Matt Le Mare)

Four barefoot people walk in a circle, holding hands, over eggshells, till there's no more crackle. (Neil Deakin)

Puncture 5000 tyres with knives to create the loudest continual snakelike hissing sound ever. (Matt Le Mare)

Drop large boulders into lava pools to play the accented rhythms of the chorus of Great Balls of Fire (Lewis 1957). (Matt Le Mare)

3 or more pans of popcorn on camping stoves. The piece ends after the final pop. (Neil Deakin)

3 windplayers improvise only while hula hooping while 3 percussionists improvise only while skipping to 2 handheld rope 5 mins (Neil Deakin)

5000 drummers play in unison very loudly for hours then pause; sound of a dropping of a needle, then unison shout: “Hey!” (Matt Le Mare)

@compose140 AB.AB.AGGAB.AB.AGGAGGAGG…ABCB.AFEGGABCB.AFEGGAFEGGAFEGG...CABCB.CAFEGGCABCB.CAFEGGCAFEGGCAFEG.G.C [Song + C&G drone] (P Burnell)