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04.10.11 - Composition for Emotion (Performance)

1) Initially, my group & I engaged in discussions over various aspects of the composition. We discussed how we would achieve the assigned emotion successfully. A lot of ideas where contributed in the form of musical devices such as dissonance, use of major or minor. Some ideas that where contributed to start with where dropped such as including allegro sections to the composition to make the audience feel the anxiety and a quick flow of unrelated notes irrelevant to the appropriate scale used. However, we did develop certain ideas chosen which seemed to fit round a western film theme. This was our foundation for any further ideas to be contributed. As the piece had a very bluesy feel, I felt it would be beneficial to include use of a “slide”. Which straight away is recognizable to the token sound we where aiming for. With the second group I worked with, we felt like we didn’t have enough time to elaborate on different ideas and discuss how or what we would be able to do to further the validity of the composition in relation to the emotion. As our emotion was “jealousy”, we came up with just one idea of using a very low tuned guitar and having a slow drum beat. The reason we decided to do this is because we concluded from our initial discussions that generally, jealousy could be seen as quite a heavy and dull burden for someone to carry, however it can be controlled and masked by the bearer of the burden. Thus, we created a piece of music that was very dull, heavy, and it seemed to drag out, however the piece was clearly structured and included use of dynamic, which directly relates to how jealousy can rise and fall within the mind. 2) For both groups, we realised that the objective was going to be a lot more difficult to accomplish than we first thought. In the first group, the contributions came from each of us and then we would each change something until when it came to performance it was half improvised as that much had changed, none of us particularly knew our parts exactly. I think this worked to our advantage though, as we didn’t realise it at the time of performance but we where all in a way anxious to know what section was coming next and in what key, although a structure and different sections could easily be separated from each other. For the second group, the creative process was a lot simpler. We thought of one idea and then elaborated it. I tuned my E string down on my guitar so it was an octave below the next string (A). Then I started playing a slow and heavy ostinato in which the basis of the composition took place. After the group and I had improvised around that ostinato, we structured a piece, rehearsed it once, then it was ready to perform. 3) I felt each performance was at a higher standard than I had anticipated. This was backed up by the positive feedback we received for each performance. If I was to do this task for the second time, I would follow the exact same procedures I did to begin with. The only thing that wouldn’t be the same, is that I’d make sure I had something absolutely solid in which we are conformable in performing, rather than half-improvising.

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04.10.11

The Wife and i had a long discussion about Doctor Who. We both agreed that we would like to see another actor in the role. We're not happy with the sixth season. And we're not sure what is so great about The Doctor's Wife. It's a solid episode but feels more like goofy fanfiction. Spent the evening looking for somebody who would buy my comics. I'm not sure how to proceed, either give them away for a relatively small amount of money or give them away to people who'd really like them.

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