ABSTRACT
Artistic collaborations have been variously understood as mechanisms for experimentation, collectivity, social practice, and radical politics. They can be volatile, generative, short-lived, or enduring. Like many games, the collaboration unfolded carefully and with little indication of the final path that people would discover: to play, of course, is to play with limits, to find rules as they emerge. People started with an open field and with no shared language. A bleating clarinet announces a free-kick outside of the box as the drums skitter, nervous and frenetic. Watching television is its own kind of virtuosity. And there are so many different ways of watching. At any given moment, one or more of the musicians could be treating the broadcast in a literal way, while someone else might be trying to stitch together a melody from those translations, while someone else is making fun of the referee.
