(...) Ari would like you to know that the score you see in front of you is only one possible representation of a set of instructions that exists in order to produce the actual piece that we will now execute together. The piece is the music we will produce but also (and equally) the moment that is created between us and between us and whomever may be viewing the piece (although an audience is in no way necessary). The piece then is an ongoing series of fleeting moments mediated by a set of instructions (the score). Ari asks that, to preserve the nature of this work, no recordings of any kind be made.

— Taken from the manuscript score of DUET