Composition Exercise #32

Compose a piece for three instruments or voices.

The sound of Voice 1 changes slightly on every 7th note of Voice 2.

The sound of Voice 2 changes slightly on every 7th note of Voice 3.

The sound of Voice 3 changes slightly on every 7th note of Voice 1.


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Shedding the Question

Pico Iyer: What were you asking me, I’m sorry?

Paul Holdengräber: I have no idea.

That wonderful moment when roles blur and a stage interview becomes a deep exchange, opening up a space for intuitive action, participation and community. Not forgetting the question, but shedding the need for it. Music.

Two masters at work.


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Cempekitien Oxorciko #25

Choose a random text – a news article, a poem, anything.

Replace every “s” with a “k” and vice versa.

Then swap every “e” with an “o” and vice versa.

Read it to the next person without any explanation, and with a straight face.


Kign up fer tho a100ql nowklottor whoro I kharo nowk, theughtk, okkayk and matorialk rolatod te tho bleg enco er twico por menth.