Two Seaming (for two flutes) by janerigsounds

Two Seaming... (2001/1998) Jane Rigler
The ambiguity of the piece begins with the title. I wrote this piece with the Inuit women’s vocal games in mind, where two women face each other so closely that the mouth cavity of one is the resonator for the other. While using a frying pan or other such device to help resonate their vocalizations, each begin to breathe, sing and vocalize gestures into the other’s face. This spectacular game ends when the first person begins to laugh, she, then, becoming the loser of the game.
This flute piece was written for two female flutists, but men using the falsetto voice have proven perfectly wonderful performers of this piece. When performed in public, the intention of this piece is that neither the audience, and perhaps neither the interpreters, really know who is playing or singing what, being that the timbres and tones match so well between the voices and flutes. The improvised sections evoke the game: who will play next? Who will have the last word? Although, in this game, there are no losers.