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See also:
Games with no-props tag will not need special objects. Musical instruments and sufficient space might be needed.
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List of pages tagged with no-props:
| 100 Events, no 35 (M.L. Knowles) | words by letters event |
| 100 Events, no 39 (M.L. Knowles) | cumulative low/high sounds event |
| 100 Yard Metronome Run | running to music event |
| #1722 Your Commuting Sounds | imitate your travels |
| 3-split | an improv inspiration for listening and reacting |
| ABP128 | set of nine basic sounds rite |
| Acapella Harmonies | long concurrent tones sung |
| ACSRS64 / Sitting Room Song | extending a phrase to end tutti rite |
| Adder! | extending the chain of sounds |
| Angelic/Devilish Choir | conducted level of discord |
| Antakshari | a word-chain game popular in India |
| AWEP172 Exploration/Creation | inspired actions rite |
| AWZK170 | mind-body connection rite |
| Body Band | body percussion loops |
| Bounce-the-sound | hot potato for music |
| Cantus Firmus | slowed down phrase used as a background |
| CCAR17 / Accompanying Rite | accompaniment and solos rite |
| CCDCR132 / Daisy Chain Rite | an accompanied duo rite |
| CCQR133 | basic stochastic music rite |
| Cellular Constellation | math automatons for changing who plays |
| CFS32 | sitting still rite |
| CH27 | eye contact and doing nothing rite |
| Chansonnée | music based on a song description |
| Charlotte's Relay Race | |
| CHMR89 / Military Rite | laying down rite |
| Choice 10 (R. Bozzi) | fighting over violin event |
| Comping Game | jazz drumming exercise |
| Conductor's Remote | a situation of strong asymmetry |
| Convergent Ostinato | making a random pattern typically harmonious |
| Conversations | assuming a personality to play |
| Count to Three | body percussion as numbers |
| Creating Soundscapes | workshop process for soundscapes |
| Cutting Down On the Material | |
| Danger Music Number Seventeen | screaming |
| Danish Clapping | independent clapping decisions |
| Developing a Linear Rhythm | additive rhythm for aural learning |
| Divider! | split a melody by notes |
| Djent Game | a wild exercise in polyrhythms |
| Drive in Burger | learn a rhythm while performing other |
| Dueling Bumblebees | playing with semitones |
| Entitled Piece | one of the loosest text prompts possible |
| Exotic Constellations | weird line-ups |
| Exploring Polyphony | conducting to create harmonic patterns |
| EZ179 | unique long tones rite |
| Feeling Time | subdivision of a pulse exercise |
| Flipping Orders | doing the opposite warm-up |
| Générique | playing after role-played discussion |
| Hand Piece (With Memory Function) | training for Cobra |
| Harmony Duets | harmonizing in turns |
| Harmony-Tag! | everyone's sound switched on and off |
| Head Shoulders Knees Toes | body movement and shouting warm-up |
| Hello! | names in a rhythm on six |
| HMSCR104 / Commentary Rite | commentary rite |
| HMSIR5 | reflective rite |
| HMSUR103 / Unknown Rite | spreading a secret plan rite |
| HSDN01 / Drum No 1 | drum pulse rite |
| In Unison (E. Williams) | looking for unison event |
| Instant Composition | |
| Interdependence | |
| Jeu Des Moutons | a variation over Les Moutons de Panurge piece |
| JNWWR37 / Winning Word Rite | winning word rite |
| Know What You Are Doing | |
| Leading And Guiding | following sound |
| Leading by a Sound | leading sound (extension) |
| LH158 Set Strategy Rite | matching or opposing rite |
| Loop Cycle | enter, follow, join, leave — an algorithm |
| Magic Music | direct the action by the volume of music |
| Mating Game | animal pairs group chaos |
| Miniatures | play many one-minute pieces |
| Modulo Game | math results in changing length of entries |
| Movement for Ears | ideas for interpreting physical movement |
| MPSACR142 / Solo and Chorus Rite | antiphonal singing rite |
| Musical Tetris | fitting your sounds between others |
| Musical Tetris, lvl 1 | simple game based on rhythm and musical skill available also to non-musicians |
| Mutual Prescriptions series | CBN's piece about range of parameters |
| Names & Body Percussion | names loop warm-up |
| Nightlife of Machines | conducting results in changing length of entries |
| One Into Another (for music) | an adaptation of one of surrealist games |
| Opus 27 (E. Andersen) | long violin tone event |
| Parallel Tunes | improvise with verbal signals from all players |
| Pass the Sound | miming and sounding, pair by pair |
| Perception 4 | a very quiet duet |
| Phrase Dealer | deal short phrases and keep players attentive |
| Piece for Any Number of Vocalists | concurrent independent songs |
| Polyfill | dropping a fill-in after a your polymeters coincide |
| Progressions | from one chord to another |
| Quotas | prescribed amounts of notes |
| Rainbow No.2 for Orchestra | amateurish major scale event |
| Reacting on unforeseen cue | |
| Rhythmic Breathing | pulsed breathing warm-up |
| Riff Jamming | rhythmical layers |
| Room Score | pointing to places |
| Rotary Jam | switching duos |
| Rounds | |
| RSRIV137 | |
| Rubber Kip | a quick fun shouting warm-up |
| Signals Game | rhythm from gestures |
| Six Stroke Phase | learning polymeters process |
| Song Association (game/mechanic) | find a song with a given word and perform it (+variants) |
| Song Performance (game/mechanic) | sing a song with obstacles |
| SS155 Willy Nilly | fun sounds orated rite |
| Staircase | solos limited by note numbers |
| Stamp Clap Name | learning names on a pulse |
| Step In / The Echoing Well | shout into the well warm-up |
| Supersound! | coming up with new sounds |
| Symphony No.3, Fluxversion 1 | falling of chairs event |
| Textures | X-tech accompaniment |
| The Birth of Music | memorization and improvisation workshop |
| The Ping Pong Ball | reactions to imagined object warm-up |
| The Rhythm Mill | move rhythm around the body warm-up |
| The Siren's Song | |
| The Snake | guided gestures and sounds |
| The Yell | sound texture in a grid |
| Travel Routes | using a map for reading music |
| Tuning in | from dissonance to consonance |
| Two-headed Soloist | improvise a melody one note at a time |
| Uluk Rain Ritual | a micro-rpg framed as a ritual |
| Vocal Band | circlesongs process |
| Vocal Improvisation In A Circle | |
| Volume Waves | emergent structures from adjusting your volume to other players |
| Waking Up Australia | rhythmic warm-up with a loud stomp |
| What You Hear Is What You Get (To Do) | closely following the soloist |
| Who Started It? | guessing the leader of the group improvisation |
| Whoop Event | run around and yell event |
| Zina's Circle | |
| Zip Zap Zop | spatial reactions rhythmic warm-up |