"Good evening. Welcome to A Man in a Room, Gambling. This evening, we will explain how to perform the old and worthy trick, El Trile, or the Three Card Trick. You will have noticed the trick a few times on the streets of the town centre. El Trilero, or the Three Card Man shows three cards to his audience, face up on a folding table. One of them is always an ace. As on every evening, first take a pack of cards and shuffle..."
A Man in a Room, Gambling was conceived by leading British composer Gavin Bryars and Spanish sculptor and illusionist Juan Munoz. Originally commissioned as a radio broadcast in 1992, it was later performed by the Gavin Bryars Ensemble at the Maida Vale concerts in 1997.
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