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This work consists of experimental music scores with the elements of visual poetry and art. The clear acetate sheets printed with staves are overlays for a printed textural loose sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is another version of a drawing mentioned in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 250. The original drawing entitled, "C.Loopseend" (Opus 4) is in the collection of the Tate Gallery. It is stated that the work is a variant of Opus 2 but the piece is not depicted in the book. The Sackner drawing has the Letter 'I' appended to the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Although the colophon is numbered 25/100, Phillips signed the work 14/100. One of the prints is taken from Phillips' opera "Irma" and has Humument imagery. The prints feature stencilled, empty letters characteristic of one of Phillips' styles. These are depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 260-261. Phillips mentions that this wotk was first performed by John Tilbury in 1971. The Humument fragments read "quite high - intonation devine time (top print) and "tr - Low and high divisions - s- the hiss of cheeks (bottom print). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.