IVAR (chair, pine) / IKEA I is the first work in the potential IKEA-series of performative/visual/sound-installations that interprets IKEA’s famous assembly instructions as graphic score for musical performance. The work exists in a multi-fold manner, with two concrete sections: a private (i.e. no audience) musical performance, and the (non-private) installation in which the sound is incorporated. The performance utilizes an acoustically active space, an omni-directional condenser microphone, the packed and unassembled IKEA chair, and the score (assembly instructions). Within this space, the microphone records all the sounds happening in the space, while the performer unpacks and assembles the chair according to the score, resulting in a musical recording. The installation displays the score (assembly instructions), a speaker that plays the music in a loop, and the instruments in the form of the assembled chair. I intend on presenting the installation (see the appended PDF for digital impression).