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Hi Joshua!  Hope you still like your choice!

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This week we viewed experimental videos made by Matt Flowers, Éder Santos, Kevin Gallagher and Nic DeSantis with music by sound artist Stephen Vitiello. We also watched an excerpt from a performance of Different Trains that included video and a unique stage set-up.

Editing then continued working on videos begun last week, with a focus on practicing looping clips and adding special effects. We also learned how to add a soundtrack to our pieces, blending recorded sound from our cameras with music from freemusicarchive.org.

We shared our pieces and discussed what we found interesting, surprising, or unexpected about them.

At the end of class we revisited our audio work from the first few classes and brought out our instruments to practice phrases based on selections from our pieces.

Today we went outside and did some shooting! We talked about camera angles and different types of shots (wide/medium/close up), and practiced using tripods.

After shooting, we brought our footage back inside to practice editing on iMovie.

Hi Malachy!  Here is a recording of Mike and I playing this … want to shoot for Nov 12/13 Bach Marathon for a performance?[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Jesus-Joy-of-Mans-Desiring.mp3|titles=Jesus Joy of Man’s Desiring]

Hi Malachy, Karl and Matthew!  Here is a recording of the student parts [audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Anthem-student-parts1.mp3|titles=Anthem student parts] and here is a recording of the PSQ parts – you can play along (I count you in around bar 53…) [audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Anthem-Teachers-Parts1.mp3|titles=Anthem Teacher’s Parts]

Today we started talking about video work! We mostly watched a lot of different work and talked about different types of videos, such as narrative, documentary, and experimental.

Here’s some stuff we saw:

Videos from other students:
RAW ArtWorks’s Real to Reel Film School
ICA’s Fast Forward program

Videos from local filmmakers:
Mike Stoltz
Lauren Mackler
Keith Heyward
Alee Peoples
Sophia Tintori

Stop-motion videos:
Living My Life Faster by JK Keller
Summer Sped Up by Josh Kalven
T-Shirt Wars
MUTO by BLU

At the end of class we learned about the cameras we’ll start shooting with next week! We tested them out in the classroom in preparation for a small field trip outside next week.

Hi Karl!

You are learning this for the Teacher’s Bach Marathon in November 13 and 14th.  Listen to this as much as you can – the rhythms are pretty tricky, but I know you’ll play it beautifully![audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Aria-from-Goldberg-Variations.mp3|titles=Aria from Goldberg Variations]

At our third class we reviewed how to use the recorders and we also reviewed the work we did with them in our last class. Then Laura put “Come Out” back on and showed everyone how to create a repeating phrase that matched a section of “Come Out.” We talked about improv and about being composers and about “musical form.” Laura played “Twinkle” and asked us to figure out the pattern the composer used.

Laura: “Can anyone figure it out?”
Justin: “I just know how to play it.”
Laura: “But how do you memorize something like that?”
Anthony: “At the end, it does the first one!”
Laura: “Yes! The end is the same as the beginning. It’s a very common musical form called A-B-A.”

Then we split up into pairs to interview each other, asking questions we came up with last week: Where are you from? Where do you want to be from? Where are you going? Where do you want to be going?”

After we were done interviewing, we moved to the computers and worked on editing our audio files.

At the end of class, everyone got a CD to take home with their audio file so they could practice creating phrases with their instruments based on parts of their audio files.

http://www.fiddlestudio.com/2010/04/rolling-waves.html

Check it out — Megan Beller, fiddler and teacher from Rochester (who works with Alice Kanack!) has recorded slow & fast versions of the first jig we’re learning this year.

Sheet music for all instruments will be available in Fiddle Lab