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A graphic score for 4 players; commissioned by the University of Illinois for "Graphic Music: A Symposium of Sound and Design". Performed by Flutists John Fonville and Regina Zakrajsek and Trombonists Jim Staley and Robert Gale as part of "Music, Structures and Space", at Jack Baker Gallery, Champaign, Illinois in May, 1978.

"Means' sculptural scores are like elaborate sets for a musician/performer. "KIOSK", for instance, is a free-standing structure, with notation on its surface and mobiles within it that alter a player's choice of notes in response in response to the wind from his instrument. The largest and most complex of these works, "The Gnomes of Zurich", for wind instruments, outdoor plaza and portable electronics, was installed at the Federal Reserve Bank as part of the 1980 New Music America Festival?The movement of his earlier kinetic works has, in a sense, been translated in movement for dancers, actors and musicians in his recent collaborative multimedia productions. The latest, "In and (Always) Out of Order", featured dance, theater and video, simultaneously happening in two locations."
Steven A. Kvaal in City Pages (May, 1984)

Composer

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inVisible Cities (2011-)
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The Palm Dubai
The Prague Spirals (2012)
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Strange Attractors (Stroomhuis) 1997
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In the Forest of Symbols (1989)
Pockets of Resistance (1975)
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Dymax III (1979)
Floorpiece (Dymaxion Music) (1978)
Floorpiece II (1979)
Double Negative (1979)
(No Immediate) WORD (1979)
World Without Castles (1992)
Dymax VII (1984)
The Sword of Damocles (1998)
Equivocai (1976)
Electric Heart (2000)
The Mountains of Haida Island (1984)
WildLife Light/Sound Forms (1996)
Magister Ludi (1996)
Cannon River Wave/Forms (1992)
Soundstation Antarctica (1997)
Dancing About Architecture (1994)
Future Perfect (1982)
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Double Helix (1992)
Sentir Paris(2004)
In the Mind's Eye (2005)
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