Week7 - Improvisation Project

This post will be slightly bigger this week as it will be post 1 of 2 concerning music technology in week 7. There was no Audio Arts class (allowing me a thursday morning sleep in) and SuperCollider will be documented in around 6 days (the time it took for God to create the world) time.

The 2 hour Forum was devoted to Derek Pascoe and his methods of improvisation, and his interactions/improvisations with what we can consider Improv Group 1. I liked the strategies he presented, and these may be worth some consideration. I think his 'Me and My Shadow' will be applicable to our Improv Group. It could be renamed to something like 'Shadows Evolve'.

It was useful to hear another Improv Group, and how they are constructing themselves as a group. I felt that for most of the period in which they were improvising, the guitar duo needed something more dynamic and be able to shepherd the improvisation in new directions.

Hopefully, each member of our group will have the ability and power to control the direction of the improvisation. I think that that will be a testament to our successful construction of improvisation.

REFERENCES:
Pascoe, Derek. 2006. Improvisation Workshop. Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, EMU Space, University of Adelaide, 7 September.

Albums that made this blog possible:
This is This... by The Mark of Cain.