ground rules

Hi y’all.I’d like us to be friends.Friendship starts with mutual respect. Did y’all see that symbol at the bottom of the page? © for copyright. I’ll admit there might be a paradox here. If this site is a choir, what is that all about? This month I have been re-reading the delightful Howard Becker classic, […]

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This site is a choir

people singing together

Have you ever participated in a video-chat prayer meeting, or meditation group, or energy healing circle? If so, then you know it’s possible to connect with other people vibrationally in Web spaces, not only by gathering physically. We can sense another’s presence, scan and rebalance their energy field, conduct sacred rituals, offer and receive spiritual

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one hand clapping

hands of many colours, reaching for each other

What is the sound of one hand clapping? There are ways to make sound with one hand. Tap your chest. Snap your fingers. Or you could strike a drum. Pluck a string. Shake a rattle. That is tapping, and snapping, and plucking and drumming and rattling.That is not clapping. One choral voice is like one

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just one voice

wooden cutout of the number 1, on a rug

What is the sound of one ensemble voice? This voice exists to be in blend with other voices and instruments. It has no fixed placement. No particular fach nor charateristics, no personally identifiable timbres. The overtone profile adjusts itself to suit the ensemble settings where it happens to be singing. The purpose, la raison d’être

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