The sound research — session # 3

This time we were practicing with magazines. We wrote down about 20 tasks for the players and placed them in a specific order. Each player was supposed to follow the order of the tasks in his/her own tempo. 

The sound research — session # 2

In the second 'sound research' session, we began with listening to Olivier Messiaen and Goldberg variations on Bach. Bit per bit we started exploring what kind of sounds can one make with die KUNSTZEITUNG.

Later, we thought of a few 'tasks' we can 'answer to' using the newspaper sounds. For instance, 'slower', 'faster', 'happy', 'dramatic', 'tick a page for 10 times'. The tasks were written on paper cards and the conductor was showing us them to direct us. And here's what we got.

The sound research — session # 1

Today I had the second session already with the group that joined me in the exploration of sounds.

That's what we did today. Firstly, we listened to the piece "Ionization" by Edgard Varése, to "Passages" by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass and to the piece "Danzon no 2" by Arturo Marquez conducted by Alondra de la Parra. We were playing along with the pieces using spoons.

After that, we turned the music off and recorded this piece. Although it might seem so, in the beginning, it does evolve and experiences a kind of climax at 5 minute and then in the end.

Next time I plan to work with newspapers.

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