Reacting on unforeseen cue

This item is not in the library — it is a part of: C. Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Intuitive Music: A Mini Handbook.

(from Pauline Oliveros)

Participants close eyes and await a cue from the leader or a designated participant. It may be one clap of hands; other very short sounds could also be tried out. At the cue, everybody is to react with a short vocal sound to it, without thinking first. In the resulting sound one will probably hear some variety of time elapsed between the cue and the reaction. Discuss to which degree participants think it succeeded and try again. It should be possible to react by approximately a tenth of a second.


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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