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(from Pauline Oliveros1)
Stand together in a circle with joined hands and eyes closed. One person has been designated as the "transmitter". When the time seems right, the transmitter starts a pulse that travels around the circle, by using the right hand to squeeze the left hand of the person next. The squeeze should be quickly and sharply made, to resemble a light jolt of electricity. It must then be passed on from left hand to right hand by the person receiving it, fast like a reflex, without thinking. Simultaneously with the squeeze, each shouts "hah". Make sure this shout comes with complete abdominal support, using the diaphragm muscle deep down in the body. It will be possible to estimate from the time taken for the sound to go through the circle whether a high level of reflex-like reaction was reached — this will be the case when the time delay is about to reach one tenth of a second per participant. Variations could be: reversing the direction — doing several cycles with increasingly short time between each, maybe continuously — each person chooses which direction to send the pulse (the transmitter continues to control the beginning and ending of a cycle).
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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