Live Unison And Unison Continued

Unison functions as a first principle for the organization of improvisational behavior, allowing for complex overlapping pattern morphologies to result from this simple textural principle. "Play together in unison but without knowing what each other will play" might be the pithy version of describing this practice to the uninitiated. The improvisational texture is further determined through prior mutual agreement on pitch range, register, and basic rhythmic subdivisions (quarter, half, eighth), though conflicts about their possibly-shifting definitions of intonation, pulse, transposition, etc. may emerge throughout performance. Thus, a strange game of follow the leader; the leader is unexpectedly supplanted at any moment and sometimes neutralized by an eerily coincidental tessellation. The music facilitates coincidence by way of the rigorously awry. It's almost as if Paula and Bridgette Powers played microtonal scales together on clarinet and guitar for forty minutes.