Interdependence

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(from Pauline Oliveros¹)

Vocal version: choose freely between the sounds 'ho', 'ha', 'he' and 'hu', making them as short as possible. Before making sound, decide whether you act as a sender or as a receiver. Next, add long, static tones (both as sender and receiver). Next again, add almost imperceptibly slow glissandos (as receivers only). When receiving from long sounds, wait until they are over. You may now perform the piece in three sections (a new one starts when someone enter new material) and collectively find out how to end it.

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The wording above is by Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, as written in Intuitive Music: A Mini-Handbook, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 (Bergstrøm-Nielsen 2009, 11)

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Footnotes

1. The description given here is a paraphrase of how the exercise/piece was instructed by Pauline Oliveros at Openform Festival in Oslo, 29.November 2009. You can make instrumental or mixed versions too (the glissandos only applying then to those instruments capable of performing them). See also the published edition of Four Meditations for Orchestra, Deep Listening Publications 1996, of which Interdependence is one.