Society |
Work no. 247 | |
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Society is a work for an improvisation ensemble. Performers are asked to make some choices before they start playing: whether they want to produce noise or a pitched sound, whether it's a long one or short ones in a constant pulse, and finally, whether they want to play crescendo or diminuendo. Once the choices are made, the piece begins. If you chose crescendo, you play a short one with your chosen sound, then a second crescendo using the same sound – but longer than the last one, and so it continues, each crescendo longer than the last; people who chose diminuendos do that too, each diminuendo longer than the last. Then after a while everything changes: a cue is given, and each musician reverses their original choice. Those who played crescendos now play diminuendos, those who played noise now play pitched sound, those who played a pulse are now playing a continuous note, and so on. Depending on their instruments and their chosen sounds, for some it's not much of a change, while for others it's completely different music to play. |
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