This article explores strategies for interpreting Alexander Schubert's WIKI-PIANO.NET, a composition commissioned and performed by the author in an international tour in 2018 and 2020. Schubert's score is a website, all sections of which can be edited by the public, similar to a Wikipedia page. The author's strategies for interpreting the huge range of content added to the website-score draw upon Schubert's suggestions, the interdisciplinary rigor advocated by Jennifer Walshe, Henri Bergson's theories of comedy and the author's own experience as a composer-performer. These strategies are devised so that, despite the hundreds of compositional contributors, in performance, the final piece is perceived as an “Alexander Schubert work.”

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Appendix 1: Further Information about Alexander Schubert: This appendix includes a short biography of Alexander Schubert and suggested further reading about his music.

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Appendix 2: Further Information about WIKI-PIANO.NET: This appendix includes a list of performances by Zubin Kanga, an explanation of the main score modules of WIKI-PIANO.NET, a map of the website's structure, links to videos of Zubin Kanga's performances, and selected photographs of performances.

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