PRET A CHANTER

'PRET A CHANTER™' is the ultimate political work as in 'Politi' the life of the city. It is a post-internet,post-cyborg real-time opera that to blurs the bounderies between art and life, vocalisations (including singing and different languages but no speaking), different cultures, different economic and post-economy systems and different psychologies.

Anyone who steps over the threshold of 'PRET A CHANTER™' must abide by the rules of the opera. Anyone who enters 'PRET A CHANTER™' must succumb to the experiment that is opera.All Welcome.

CAFE MANIFESTO

1/ NO SPEAKING. ONLY VOCALISATIONS OTHER THAN SPEAKING ARE ALLOWED.

2/ THE NUMBER 2 IS NOT ALLOWED.

3/ IN THIS CAFE, SPEAKING IS CONSIDERED TO BE ANTISOCIAL. THOUGHTS EXPRESSED IN SPEECH ARE CONSIDERED TO BE AS TOXIC AS SMOKE FUMES SO FOR THIS REASON SPEAKERS WILL BE ASKED TO STAND OUTSIDE UNTIL THEY ARE FINISHED.

4/ ALL LANGUAGES REAL AND IMAGINED ARE WELCOME.

5/ ALL FORMS OF VOCALISATION ARE WELCOME. THIS INCLUDES WHISTLES, GROANS, BARKS ( AND ANIMAL SOUNDS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS BOTH REAL AND IMAGINED) BURPS, GRUNTS, ULULATIONS, SNORES, VOCAL MULTIPHONICS, OVERTONES, MOANS AND YODELS.

6/ PRICES FOR FOOD AND DRINK ARE SET ACCORDING TO CREATIVITY.

7/ IN THIS CAFE YOU ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE REAL TIME PERFORMERS IN LORE LIXENBERG'S REAL TIME COMPOSITION 'PRET A CHANTER'.

8/NO PRE COMPOSED SONGS ARE ALLOWED AT ALL.

9/ YOU ACCEPT YOU WILL BE FILMED AND RECORDED.

10/ TOILETS ARE ON THE RIGHT.

11/ ABSOLUTELY NO SPEAKING IN THE TOILET, YOU WILL LET OFF THE ANTI SPEAK DETECTOR.