Random Opening Voicings and Instruments

The opening scene from the TAM app gives the user a window of a few seconds to press a button that turns red. This triggers a random C minor chord leading into verse 1 of the Souvenir Shop tune. Not only is the voicing randomly picked, but so are the instruments playing the chord (piano, big band, strings).

The following was an experiment for the in praise of folly string trio¹ (violin, viola, and cello). Some voices were written out, and the final bar only gives minimal indication of which 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.