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Preparing for Cage Concert Continued!

Aiden S, Brandon L, Emily C, Jori Ketten, Liam H, Malachy H, Process,

Today we ran through the Cage piece with the timings we set through a chance game last week.

We talked about stage presence, performing, meditation, and timing.

We noticed that it felt uncomortable or awkward or boring to sit in silence for some people, and felt nice, quiet, and relaxing to others.

The piece is 19 minutes, and we get to run it through one more time next week before the performance (at 8PM on the 23rd at the Arsenal on Benefit Street – hope to see you there!).

Preparing for Cage Concert

Aiden S, Emily C, Laura Cetilia, Malachy H, Process, what's new,

Last week we talked about a composer named John Cage. We watched some videos about him and looked at scores he composed and got a feel for how he is as an artist. He’s famous for “reinventing the musical playing field” (Malachy).  We tried some of his scores in class together because we have been invited to perform at the Arsenal on March 23 as part of a Cage Centennial concert.

This week we planned our performance. We picked durations for each of the scores we will perform by picking dominoes out of a pile. The numbers on the dominos told us for how many minutes we would perform each score.

We are most excited for eating cereal and bringing skateboards to the stage!


 

 

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The Swan

10-11: Sara's Lyras, Blog, Karl O, Process, Sara Stalnaker

Hi Karl!  This is the piece for your RIPYO audition!  Two versions:

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/03-The-Swan.mp3|titles=03 The Swan] [audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/01-Saint-Saëns_-Carnival-Of-The-Animals-The-Swan.mp3|titles=01 Saint-Saëns_ Carnival Of The Animals – The Swan]

Remixing Our Voices

Aiden S, Blog, Brandon L, Jori Ketten, Liam H, Malachy H, Process, Robin Gilbert, what's new, ,

We started to work on a new project.

First, we sat in a circle and made a recording of our voices.

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ClassNoises.mp3|titles=ClassNoises]

Then we each took this recording to make new pieces, using LogicPro.

Here are the 6 directions for the piece that we made:

1. The length of the piece will be no shorter than 1 minute & no longer than 3 minutes

2. No use of pre-made (by someone else) sounds

3. Use at least 3 different sounds, including 1 new live recording

4. Make this piece “rhythm/beat oriented”

5. Include at least 1 peak point in the piece

6. Don’t loop everything, but repeat something

And here are the pieces!!!

Aiden – [audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/swagaiden.mp3|titles=swagaiden]

Brandon – [audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Brandon1.mp3|titles=Brandon1]

Emily – [audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/EmilyC.mp3|titles=EmilyC]

Liam – [audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Liam-pizzicatto-21312.mp3|titles=Liam pizzicatto 21312]

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Liam-mvmt.-2-21312-1.mp3|titles=Liam mvmt. 2 21312 1]

Malachy – [audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ChickenNuggetsBySnakeSquadMalachyH.mp3|titles=ChickenNuggetsBySnakeSquadMalachyH]

 

 

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