NOE VALLEY HUM©
PERFORMANCE INSTRUCTIONS FOR VOCAL PARTICIPANTS
Come to the performance area prepared to generate energy for positive change. Acting as an individual and taking personal responsibility for your sound and movement, occupy the space, make yourself at home, gather your energy, build your energy with the goal of pooling your individual energy with the others also working.
Listen for the tonality in which the entire group is singing. Tune to that tonality. Stay on the vowel (oo) for a long time.
Eventually begin changing vowels, very slowly, spending more time between vowels than holding any one particular vowel (ee-oo, and o-ae, for example). Overtones may emerge.
Feel free at any point to listen rather than vocalize. Either listening or sounding, blend your raised energy with the group’s energy.
Eventually feel free to sing very short melodic fragments within the chosen tonality, always returning to a consonant frequency or to silence and breath.
Listen for the group decision to end.
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