Written and produced by me.

Featuring Crystal Lake Evans, JJ Maley, Conor Sweeney, Sierra Schnack, Kevin Matthew Reyes, and Stephanie Gomerez

The Rat Trap Pack Trap Rats! (Original Score)

We're The Rat Trap Pack Trap Rats!

Listen with the score: https://youtu.be/I4dyUdKZlKo

Performed by Jessica Niles, Jessica Niles, Jessica Niles, Jessica Niles, Jessica Niles, Jessica Niles and Will Healy.

Commissioned by and written for the Barker College Copeland Choir

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What is it?  What is it?
What are you thinking of?
What is it you’re thinking of?
What is it?  What is it?

Is it a thing?  Is it smaller than a loaf of bread?
Does it make a noise?  It’s silent!
Can I eat it?  Is it healthy?
Is there meat in it?  It’s vegetarian! 

We’re getting closer to the answer, and then you know it will be my turn!
I’ll find out what you’re thinking of!

Is it a fruit?  Is it round?  Is it smaller than a baseball?
I think I know what it is!

Is it a plum?
Is it a guava?
Is it an apricot?

Is it a grape?

I found out what you’re thinking of!  You were thinking of a grape!

Oh yeah, we just found out the answer (It was a grape!)
And now you know that it is your turn (The answer was a grape!)
To find out what I’m thinking of!

What did I think of?  I can’t think of anything!
What did I think of?  I can’t think of anything!
What did I think of?  I had the best one the other day, my memory’s blank!
What did I think of?  I can’t remember it!
What did I think?  I can’t remember it!

I can’t remember what I thought of yesterday, I thought of something really good but now I can’t remember what I thought of yesterday it was so good!
Yesterday I thought of something really good but now I can’t remember what I thought of yesterday it was so good!

There’s an irony in trying to think of something you were already thinking of…
Like you’re playing a game of twenty questions against yourself…
It’s really quite bizarre.

Was it a thing?  No.
Was it a place?  No.
Was it a person?  Yes!  It was a person!

Are they famous?  Yes they’re very well known!
Are they a singer?  No.  An athlete?  No.  A politition?  No!  An actor?
Yes it was an actor!  Yes it was an actor!

We’re getting closer to the answer! 
Was it a man?  Yes!
And then you know it will be my turn!
I remember who it was!

It was Paul Rudd!  Paul Rudd, Paul Rudd, Paul Rudd, Paul Rudd (I was thinking of Paul Rudd!)

Oh I love that one movie he’s in!
You mean that one with Jason Segel?
No but he was quite good in that one as well!
Do you know when it was released?
I want to say like mid-two-thousands.
Anchor Man?
No, not Anchor Man.
Dinner for Schmucks?
No, that was a terrible movie.
Well, you’re not giving me much help here!
Oh wait, I think it was called Duplex!
Duplex?
Yeah.
That’s Ben Stiller.
What?
Yep, it’s Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore.
Seriously?

Wait.
What?
What were we doing?
Were we doing something?
I… I think so?

What was it? What was it?
What were we doing before the subject shifted to Paul Rudd?
What was it? 

I can’t remember.  I can’t remember.
Paul Rudd, Paul Rudd.  A grape, a grape.  
What were we doing?  What were we doing?
I can’t remember!

I can’t remember!  (What were we doing?)

Hmm…

Was it a game?  Did the game involve questions?
Was there a set amount the player could ask?
Was it nine?  No!  Was it seven?  No! 
Was it five?  No!  Was it eleven?  No!

We’re getting closer to the answer 
(Was it three?  No!  Was it eight?  No!  Was it eighteen?  No!)
And then you know it will be my turn!
(Was it twelve?  No!  Was it two?  No!  Was it eighteen?  No!)

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen! Eighteen! Nineteen!

Twenty questions!

Is,

A,

Lot.

Twenty Questions - children's choir

Score & Parts: https://www.jackfrerer.com/purchase-scores
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TqO-PDpEok&t=32s

Movements:
1. .zip - 1mb
2. pirated.mov - 732mb
3. result.pdf - 0.1mb (slow internet)
4. virus - 128kb
4.5 antivirus.dmg - 32mb
5. oldphotos.jpg - 7mb
1.5 .zip (contents) - 1gb

Downloads is a set of miniatures that find interest in the mundane, hyperbolizing the emotional process one goes through when downloading different file types. All of the miniatures combine in the final movement after the first miniature, a small .zip file, is opened.

Performed by Kj Mcdonald (violin), Philip Sheegog (cello), Ning Zhang (clarinet), Viola Chan (flute/piccolo) and Joey Chang (piano).

Downloads - pierrot ensemble

The Juilliard Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky in Alice Tully Hall, April 23rd 2018

We're The Rat Trap Pack Trap Rats!

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