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As should be the\ncase with any strong collaboration, this partnership has been based on mutual challenge rather than compromise,\nseeing each participant shuttle key technical and emotive aspects of the other’s work to previously unexpected\nplaces.\nThose who have been closely following this relationship will notice a definite sense of continuity between\nprevious outings and the new collaborative release entitled MICROGESTURES. As with those earlier Villalobos\n\/ Rohrer pairings, these four new pieces are defined by a special quality of being many things that once: that is to\nsay, depending on the listener’s own level of focus, these can feel very tightly constructed and disciplined, or\nplayful and freely wandering. 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