News of the World

Submitted by admin on November 28, 2007 - 10:07pm
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This defusion exercise was submitted by Jacqueline A-Tjak on November 15, 2006

Hi ,

Let me take the bite. I went to a performance with six men. The performance was about 'music is everywhere'. They started by reading a newspaper and making sounds by manipulating the newspaper. And then they started to repeat a sentence, words from the sentence, that turned it into music. The phrase they used was something like: News of the world. One would repeat the phrase, others would say just some words in a certain rythm. I thought it was a great defusion experience. The content of the words disappeared completely. They were noises, sounds, fun. I intend to use this in my therapyroom.

Jacqueline

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You know, in the 70's, the

Submitted by Fabian Maero on July 4, 2009 - 4:00pm.

You know, in the 70's, the composer Steve Reich made a series of works using tape recorder, in which a word was repeating over and over and over and over, and the meaning of words, as you said, dissappeared completely too. I think the name of these works was "Early Works", it is a little bit hard to find, but i think is worth it . Bye!