Three syllables, three sounds, three characters. A stroll with unexpected nooks, unusual encounters, disjointed liaisons. An assortment made of blackbird and paper-mâché, a frisky suction cup, a messy pair of backwards scissors. An incoming tide that brings with it the scattered remains of its own body… chaperoned by the belches of obsessional fears, the fruit of a limpid mélange of the introduction and the catastrophic arrival of a young saucepan…
Premiere
- April 4, 2001, Concert, Texas (USA)
Details
Chi-pa-boo (1996), 3:00
stereo fixed medium
Most recent events
- November 2, 2023Rochester (New York, USA)
- June 18, 2006Weimar (Thüringen, Germany)
- June 18, 2005Weimar (Thüringen, Germany)
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April 4, 2001Texas (USA)
Broadcasts
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- Åke Parmerud, Cut 1, 2, 3 Progress (1996), 3:00
- Elizabeth Hoffman, Alchemy (1996), 3:00
- Elsa Justel, Chi-pa-boo (1996), 3:00
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- Steven Naylor, Bitter Orchids (2000), 11:17
- Elsa Justel, Chi-pa-boo (1996), 3:00
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- Elsa Justel, Midi de sable (2000), 9:47
- Elsa Justel, Chi-pa-boo (1996), 3:00
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- Elsa Justel, Chi-pa-boo (1996), 3:00


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