e-flux Journal #154

<p>The opera <em>Have A Good Day!</em> is striking for its focus on something no other opera deals with: the working conditions of supermarket cashiers. Written by Vaiva Grainytė but conceived with her collaborators Lina Lapelytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, the opera’s libretto is divided between characters representing different aspects of supermarket work as well as the drastically different personalities and temperaments that animate this division of labor. Yet another layer emerges in how the structure of the score itself reflects the subject matter by reproducing a division of labor among the librettist (Grainytė), composer (Lapelytė), and director (Barzdžiukaitė): music produced collaboratively, by design, typically needs to employ methods of separating tasks between different individuals. While this might seem obvious, the consequences of such organizing principles are not well understood, especially in terms of how they place limits on the artistic result from the outset.</p> <p><strong>Editorial</strong><br /> Daniel Muzyczuk</p> <p><strong>Have a Good Day!: An Opera for Ten Singing Cashiers, Supermarket Sounds, and Piano<br /> </strong> Vaiva Grainytė</p> <p><strong>Failing Toward Utopia: The Musical Score as a Site for Dreams<br /> </strong> Nate Wooley</p> <p><strong>Labor and Anarchy in John Cage’s First and Last Compositions<br /> </strong>Sandra Skurvida</p> <p><strong>Accessibility and Instrumentality: A Conversation<br /> </strong> Marianna Ritchey and Greg Stuart</p> <p><strong>Pauline Oliveros: Music Out of the Corner of One’s Eye<br /> </strong>David Grubbs</p> <p><strong>AGIT PUNK FORM<br /> </strong>Sezgin Boynik</p> <p><strong>Commentaries on Photographs<br /> </strong>Witold Wirpsza</p> <p><strong>The Melancholy of the Jellyfish Form: A Conversation with Anton Lukoszevieze on Autumn ‘60 by Cornelius Cardew<br /> </strong>Daniel Muzyczuk</p> <p><strong>The Composer Keeps the Score: Writing Music, Sharing Power, Hearing Possibility<br /> </strong>Sarah Hennies</p> <p><strong>Ibuka!: A Musical in Three Acts Based on the Book Erasmus Is Late<br /> </strong>Liam Gillick</p>