Take something simple and make it incredibly complicated.
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Take something simple and make it incredibly complicated.
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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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Play with the same hesitant relief
of that first hummed lullaby
after your crying baby
has finally, finally
found sleep.
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Create a graphic score from scraps of empty staff paper.
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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.
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Criticize the sound of wind in trees.
Improve the splash of rain on roofs.
Applaud the birds.
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Write a piece of music based on this exercise.
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Let one of your pieces go viral.
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Start rehearsing for the last concert you will ever play.
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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.