Lyrics:
I’m a butterfly
flapping for you guys
It’s just a costume
I put on in my room
Composed by Jeffrey Alan Scudder on December 29, 2019
This instance of “Butterfly Cosplayer,” recorded on April 13, 2022, and its supporting materials were produced for Ten Whistlegraphs.
“Butterfly Cosplayer” is a longstanding icon of the practice. For the exhibition, this single-player whistlegraph is arranged for three players: Alex Freundlich, Camille Klein, and Jeffrey Alan Scudder, rendered in paint pen on a Papelarias Emílio Braga notebook.
Whistlegraphs are audio-visual digital artworks performed manually by drawing and singing. Every whistlegraph results in a poetic image through the performance of a graphic score.