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From the "Singing The Long Now" concert, Tufts University, February 5, 2017

Warren Senders - Voice
Mimi Rabson, Helen Sherrah-Davies - Violins
Junko Fujiwara - 'Cello

This composition is built around the ritualized use of silence at different tempo levels. Every performer has a variety of pre-established melodic/rhythmic patterns, punctuated by extemporized “omissions” — this means that when (and how often) to be silent becomes the main focus of creative choice. Even segments of virtuoso free improvisation are built around the idea that the notes unplayed and unheard are the sweetest, the most expressive, the most crucial.