Freeze Melody Marks =link= < 100% SIMPLE >
The mark has an unspoken duration: The performer watches the audience, or feels the collective breath in the room. The instant the tension of that frozen, imaginary melody begins to thaw—the instant someone shifts in their seat or a faint, real-world sound intrudes—the next note of the music enters, not as a continuation, but as a shattering of the ice.
