The Speakeasy Fart

Accession

FA.093

Medium

Bathtub gin, brass, bad ventilation

Duration

Concealed within an eight-bar phrase

Provenance

Never entered the record; the establishment did not exist

A masterpiece of timing. The work was placed precisely inside a trumpet solo, and no member of the seventy-person audience registered it at any level available to consciousness. Only the artist knows it occurred. You have gotten away with a very great deal in your life, and the record of it exists nowhere except in your own head, where you review it fondly.