“Oh, Musicians!” is an avant-garde piece for a quartet of speaking voices and unconventional percussion, sharing similar scoring and performance practice with John Cage’s Living Room Music (1940). The four characters of this composition are the roles I play daily as a musician. ChatGPT 4.0 generated the text for this piece:

“Oh, musicians, they play all day, strum a string, hum away, what kind of job is that?” they say, “Not a real career, no nine-to-five, how hard can it be to keep a dream alive? Late mornings, long nights. Busy? Please. How busy can they be?” —But little do they know, the rhythm never sleeps…