Excerpts from Reality was written for a Crash Ensemble performance held in UCD, and draws on text from Reality Hunger, a text which is itself made from found text (hence the piece ties in to Stolen Music). In my piece, text drawn from the book is depicted on a video screen as clouds of particles arranged into the text which dissolve gradually and rearrange as music notation (which is algorithmically derived from the text). The video screen serves as a score for the performers, who are expected to interpret the overall visual and semiotic impression (notation, text, colours, movement) and use it as a source for improvisation. As the score is also improvised (by the composer, using an interface which allows selection of specific passages of text as well as control of various visual parameters and the algorithm used for translating into notation), a complex feedback loop between composer, performers and video arises: agency becomes distributed across the performers and composer in a way which is difficult to unravel. As such, it is an attempt to place the composer in the midst of performers as a fellow improviser.