Musician/room | R–e–s–o–n–a–n–c

If your room could speak to you…

what would it not tell you?

A score for a musician, her instrument(s)

and a room.

For musician, instrument, recording device

Read the score one time from

beginning to end

Do nothing

Just feel, let the score sink in

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Read the score a 2nd time from

NOW to NOW

Each NOW starts a new part

Only part 3 involves making (a) sound(s)

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Execute the score.

Total time is 50 minutes.

However, except for the 10 minute recording,

The timings are suggestions.

Only in part 3 I’d like you to record the sound of it so prepare a recorder

you can easily arm for recording when moving to part 3.

After executing the score you will thus have made a 10 minute audio piece.

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Write down your experiences and reflections.

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Repeat the piece as many times as you like to enhance your dialogue

with the room in which you play or listen.

I’d like to make an edit of this piece overlaying all our audio bits.

Preferably not touching or editing, just juxtaposing different stretches

of 10 minute recordings

Be in your room, and let your room Be

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Walk through the room

Slowly

And let the athmosphere of it pass through you

Empty yourself

Of intent

Withdraw

Withdraw your performance

Your need to act out

Your feverish thinking

And your extacy

Feel the suspention

a space of awareness

emanating from your belly

In that space

Let your presence

and the presence of the room

blend

Be-come invisible

Imagine this room without you in it

How is it pulsating at 4am in the morning,

When all is quiet?

Make yourself absent from it

Become small

Unmoving

Un raying

Look at the room

Like a nature observer

Look at the objects and artefacts in it

Your instruments, photographs

A window

The light of day seeping into the room

A shadow and a chair

Meet your room

Say hello to it

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Like a cat

Find your spot to rest

Can you stay in this spot for hours?

Tune yourself

Let your body respond to that safe place

Sit still

Lay down

Lean against a wall

Find your resting posture

Become still

Take a little nap

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Take this sensation of the room

The blending of both your presence

and the room’s presence

And ask yourself how you, as a musician, with your instrument

Can create a dialogue with this room.

What would you ask or say or play in it?

Did you already converse with the room by meeting it differently?

How could your making a sound emanate from this different meeting?

Imagine adding a sound

to what already is.

In its silence

a presence speaks

Meet this presence

With your presence

And blend

Sound and presence

Room and you

ONE

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