Ode (owed) to O-score

3 text scores based upon Pauline Reage ‘s  Story of O

A reader reads slowly, tentatively, just loud enough to be heard by all, ten to fourteen phrases with long silences in between, from a copy of Pauline Reage book, accompanied by musicians,  chosing sentences that speak of O’s journey of sexual violence and self-destruction in the name of love.
Each involved – reader, player, listeners – is finding their own way to deal with such writing publically, while collectively attempting to give it another kind of attention, to transform it into another form of being together, of enjoying and taking pleasure in being together.
One needs an accomplice for such writing, as one needs an accomplice for such reading.

The English (and the French text) of this infamous erotic novel have been tempered with, so that only words containing the letter o and O the character remains. O is then released vocally, (accompanying) instruments, one per chapter, read the Os as notes or chords on a stave of words.

O(hh)
8 pages, laser print on 90 grams office paper, sugar paper cover, 20x27cms.

Here the infamous erotic novel has been abridged to seven phrases, chosing those where O is subject (as opposed to passive object). These phrases are gradually stripped of words containing other vowels, until only O remains before being breathed away.
The lines are read slowly, sometimes aloud sometimes with eyes only, pausing in between each, blank spaces are silent and (breath) audible. Instrument (if any) releases O as a short or a long note played softly.