Saturday, February 19, 2011

Polyphony

This from Robert Bringhurst: "Polyphony, in short, is singing more than one song, playing more than one tune, telling more than one story, at once. It is music that insists on multiplicity – instead of uniformity on the one side or chaos on the other." [Everywhere Being Is Dancing]
With this as an introduction, we tried polyphonic vector practice today–each of us singing our own tune, together. Here are two:


This one, above, done by three of us on a modest size piece of ragged silk chiffon .
This one, below, done by five of us, on a tiny square of muslin.


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