For Omnia Mutantur I, I record myself performing a short movement phrase every night, for the proposed duration of two years (at least). I do not intend to stop until I have either used the material in a work which I consider to be the culmination of this project.

Omnia Mutantur II is based the same principle: I will be recording myself doing a movement phrase at the beginning of every month, for a proposed minimum duration of thirty years (barring circumstances that will prevent me from physically performing the movement phrase, such as my death). At the end of these thirty years, I will decide to either continue with Omnia Mutantur II, or use the accumulated material in a work which I consider to be the culmination of the project.

Two thoughts were the motivation behind this project:

• In a study done on farm workers who hand-roll tobacco, researchers discovered that the workers' skill at tobacco rolling---as measured by the number of cigarettes they roll per unit time---improved asymptotically at a logarithmic rate. As the workers became more skilled, the improvement became smaller but was never zero.
• Everyday or nearly everyday, till the day we die, we brush our teeth, put on clothes, eat, drink, breathe. The repetitiveness of our life, when examined, can be staggering. Routine is an obsession; we are obssessed with remaining alive, keeping healthy, fitting in with society.

Will I get "better" at doing this this short movement phrase? What would "better" mean in this case? Will I find a "right" way of doing the phrase? Can I read from my movements other changes happening in my life? (Sometime along the way, I began introducing my nightly recording with a brief summary of how my day went.) How would the very first recording from October 10, 2006, compare the very last one?