When Gordon Bok taught at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop in 1988, I was in his class, called "Things to do with more than one voice." We did a number of songs from the February Tapes, including the "Donkey Engine", mentioned by cetmst above. Gordon told us about all the quirks of the one-cylinder engine that this nonsense choral piece was meant to emulate. The piece includes the gradual entry of voices, each adding a repeated phrase that represented a particular noise the engine made as it warmed up, leading to a lurching, hiccupping, remarkably engine-like sound. I remember that the first voice repeats a German phrase that means "I can't do it." I also recall that on the first page of the score were the words: "Copyright refused, G. Bok." If anyone is really interested, you could email Gordon through his website, and he might send you a copy of the score, and an explanation of the engine sounds. Then again, he might not.

Aloha,
Mark