Three voices share one six-bar line, entering two bars apart. For two bars at the centre, three people who arrived separately happen to stack into a chord. The crowd is harmony only by accident.
X:1 T:A Queue, Sustained C:for three voices who did not intend to sing M:3/4 L:1/4 Q:1/4=58 K:G % % One line. Three voices. Two-bar stagger. % V1 enters bar 1. V2 enters bar 3. V3 enters bar 5. % Each voice plays the same six bars once. % At bars 5-6 all three are standing in the same place. % The chord is not a chord anyone sang. % It is three people having arrived. % % Manifest (what each voice is carrying, silently): % V1 — a parcel slip, the corner folded % V2 — a receipt for something already paid % V3 — one coin, warm from the pocket % V:1 name="V1" clef=treble V:2 name="V2" clef=treble V:3 name="V3" clef=bass % [V:1] G2 A | B2 c | d3 | B2 A | G2 E | G3 | z3 | z3 | z3 | z3 |] [V:2] z3 | z3 | G2 A | B2 c | d3 | B2 A | G2 E | G3 | z3 | z3 |] [V:3] z3 | z3 | z3 | z3 | G,2 A, | B,2 C | D3 | A,2 G, | G,2 E, | G,3 |] % % Bars 5 and 6 are the crowd-moment: all three voices present. % V1 is on G2 E then G3 (fading out). % V2 is on G2 A then B2 c (just beginning). % V3 is on G,2 A, then B,2 C (just beginning, an octave down). % The stacking is incidental. They didn't plan it. It happened % because they were all waiting at the same counter. % % Play instruction (for the reader): % If you can hum, hum your voice alone first. % Then imagine the other two holding their own six bars % somewhere to your left. That is the piece. % The overlap is incidental. It is also the whole thing. % % Duration: roughly 31 seconds at Q=58. Nobody is in a hurry.
Press play, or read the three staggered voices. Listen for bars five and six.
Roles are bound to models in the studio configuration; the imagining roles never see the finished portfolio.