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This graphical score and performance maps the sexual activity (or lack thereof) in two pornographic movies, The Masseuse (1990) and Jenna Jameson is The Masseuse (2004). Both movies were directed by Paul Thomas and the stars in both movies won AVN Awards for Best Actor and Actress. My challenge was to take pornography and mutate it into music. My methodology was to transcribe the sexual activity from the movies and form a database. From this database, I ranked the activity from least frequent to most frequent, which I then mapped to the tonality of that section. I plotted the activity on a grid and compressed the data for each movie to five minutes long. I then assigned instrumentation to the data, based on their frequency.

The first public performance of this piece was at Michael Schumacher's Diapason Gallery, and an MP3 and movie are available for download on this page.