Piano or Organ Solo - The title is an abbreviation of ""as slow as possible"". It lso refers to ""Soft morning city! Lsp!"", the first exclamations in the last paragraph of ""Finnegan's Wake"" (James Joyce) - There are eight pieces, any one of which must be omitted and any one of which must be repeated. The repetition may be placed anywhere (even before its appearance in the suite) gbut otherwise the order of the pieces as written shall be maintained. - Neither tempo nor dynamics have been notated. Time proportions are given (just as maps give proportional distances). Accidentals apply only to those pitches they directly precede. - Each hand plays its own part and is not to be assisted by the other. A diamond-shaped note indicates a note to be depresed without sounding. All the notes have stems. The stem gives the point in time of the single note, interval, or aggregate. Where there is insufficient horizontal space, the stems are splayed to accopmmodate the noteheads. A closed notehead tied to an open notehead indicates the end of a sustained sound. Sustained sounds are also notated somtimes with straight line-extensions. - In a performance a correspondence between space and time should be realized so that the music ""sounds"" as it ""looks"".

Composer: Cage, John
Material: Photoprints (printed on demand)