Rob Cohen and roommate Chris "Isto" White play a game from time to time. It is a musical game. It is a game based on one process and very few rules. The format is similar to the memory game Simon. 

At the beginning of a session of The Game, one of us will choose and play a note on our instrument (Rob on Casio SK-1 - which gives us 2 and a half octaves of possible notes - and Chris on acoustic guitar). The other will repeat this note and then add a new one. This process continues until we agree that the session is complete. Neither of us communicates verbally about our selection of each subsequent note. Depending on our moods, a given string of notes can demonstrate vastly different levels of motivic/organizational cohesion (anywhere from a sing-songy melody to sheer randomness). A session can involve any number of notes. The new string of notes is rehearsed, committed to memory, and appended do the existing strings of notes. When we play the string of notes, we do not intentionally deviate from a uniform rhythmic pulse and velocity of attack.

At no point during the duration of The Game can any portion of it be recorded or documented in any way. Over about half of the year beginning around 2009, Chris and Rob had amassed well over 1000 notes. Due to an unfortunately prolonged sabbatical from The Game, we lost at least a few hundred of the most recently added notes to memory's abyss. We performed the surviving 7 or 8 hundred notes we had managed to piece together at the Jalopy Theater on February 20, 2010 to celebrate the release of Isto's 10th CD, Let's Get Friendly.

Chris and Rob will most likely continue creating and performing some form of The Game into the future.