TETC leads the listener through a choreography of embodied scenes by reciting their own collectively composed form of Butoh-fu. Butoh-fu is a form of choreographic instruction/notation created by Yukio Waguri, influenced by his teacher Tatsumi Hijkata, who led a studio developing the movement practice called Butoh. The Butoh-fu is followed by a conversation with Timmy Simonds. We end with a TETC’s performance of a choral piece, Cornelius Cardew's The Great Algorhythm, adapted by Eddy Wang and B Kell, and originally performed at UKAI Project's Carnival of Algorithms festival.

The listener is addressed, but not intentionally. All bodies are spoken into by happenstance.

-Teaching is a collective head.

-Teaching is teaching a workshop for yourself and happening to be heard.

-Intimate yet not insular. 

-“You” is used.

-“You” is a bridge. It is accidental. It is insistent.

-“You” is the listener, it is the group, it is “I.”

-“You” is me yesterday, now, in the future.

 Miss Othmar is the name of that teacher of Charlie Brown that’s heard and never seen. Her voice carries no words and transmits no facts. Her professing is an undulating song. Nevertheless C.B. and his classmates seem to follow along.

Miss Othmar is teaching over radio. "Miss Othmar's Meetings with Teachers" is a series that collects the voices of different teachers and facilitators from a variety of fields and their approaches to leading the listener through exercises over radio. missothmarschoolforteachers.info

Timmy Simonds is an artist interested in the ways we perceive education and our expectations of the teacher cross culturally. He broadcasts regularly with Montez Press Radio and Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM.

Toronto Experimental Translation Collective (TETC) is composed of Benjamin de Boer, Yoyo Comay, Nicholas Hauck, Fan Wu, Eddy Wang, and Ami Xherro. They are guided by a heterotopic pedagogy. You can visit their website for archival selections of their projects at tetcollective.com.