Obstacle - continous playing

[Phil Morton]

During step in, the players who are active are required to keep on playing, improvising, until the absent player [ in tacet mode] joins in.

Until recently, and after many years of; either doing this exercise or similar, the requirement for those `in play` to continue has never been an issue.

However, recently (Winter 2019) this requirement has become problematic, despite the short duration of the exercises - each deployment of this exercise is usually to a fixed duration - some players/improvisers may not `continually play` - this causes confusions: no solution is being offered here, only to be aware of your group and their characteristics or personalities.

Causes: the improviser cannot keep on playing, chooses not to keep on playing, is unaware that there is an obligation to keep on playing

To be continued

[Phil Morton]

Unforeseen consequences

If one player cannot sustain continuous playing, maybe the player in `tacet mode` should notice this, and start to play, thus maintaining the conceit, the aim of the exercise.

This adds another skill to the piece, that is the `tacet` player has multiple reasons to start playing/improvising: one of them would be to acknowledge one player is wishing to drop out, to therefor change mode and start playing to help maintain the piece: `support` maybe a relational function to be considered.