echo chorus

Listen, do you feel the ripple? the twinkle of a bell rebounding?

Encounter past selves, cultural touchstones or one’s own root lineages. Write a new song.

You will need: 1d8, 1d12, songwriting tools of choice, time, access to the internet or physical reference materials.

Using oracle dice and a divined source text: you will compose a new song, that “glosses” an existing stanza or section.  

Your song will sample those lines and reframe them into a new piece with its own meaning, inspired by the poetic form of the glosa.This form plays with lineage, history, citation, and playful re-contextualization.  The game comes as a trifold print and play set of rules and a songsheet to use if desired.

credits

• Bracelet Bell images (and here) used in the design were edited in Affinity Photo, and sourced from the Met Museum's open access collections. circa ancient Rome first century of the common era.
• Dicier, bySpeaktheSky, licensed under CCBY4.0
• Angel-Sealing Glyphs, by SpeaktheSky, licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1
• WTF Pamphlet RPG Template by wizardthieffighter I started with this template to figure out my layout
• created for assignment 2, part 1 ofA.G. Cook's August 2025 workshop with School of Song
• I first encountered the form of the glosa in reading Amber Dawn's Where the words end and my body begins (2015) (Together Six is in this collection and also online at Plentitude).  Another exampleand explainerare readable here.