Random opening voicings and instruments
The opening scene from the TAM app gives the user a few seconds window to press a button that will change color to red. This triggers a random chord Cmin leading to verse 1 of the Souvenir Shop tune. Not only is the voicing randomly picked, but also the instruments playing the actual chord (piano, big band, strings).
The following was an experiment for the in praise of folly string trio1 with violin, viola and cello. Some voices were written out, and the final bar only gives minimal indication on what notes to play: a pentatonic-derived scale with a 9th, no 7th and no 6th: 
Here is an unedited extract of the trio playing random picks of bar 68. I left their spontaneous reactions at the end.
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inpraiseoffolly.co a string quartet, in their regular formation, based in Brussels. ↩︎