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Gestures employs an auto-catalyzer to gather together material from movements I and II. The catalyser breaks up and reforms this material in a sequence of variants: original catalysis, retrograde, randomize, transpose, inversion.
A musical gesture is that coming together of melodic phrase and rhythmical content; in today’s music it has become an increasingly complex phenomenon often imitating speech or natural movement.