Group improvisations
Yesterday on our laptop musicianship lecture we had our group improvisations which we had been working on for a week. My group had James play the granular synth, Pete and Gemma the Sound Scratcher, Trent the predators and i messed around with the SoundDrops. I think we did pretty well although we needed to practice more. So these are my thoughts of the other groups who performed.
The first group was very different from all the others and made some quite interesting sounds. They were really listening to what each other was doing and had a sort of dialogue because they would imitate each other with similar sounds.
The second group was process music based, where each member would come in at different beats and then when each member had their improvisation they would gradually fade out . This made it sound very similar to steve reich’s compositions.
The fourth group kind of had a structure but it was based on a looped beat where they just started coming in and started improvising on that.
The fifth group started with a steady beat but then they started improvising with the beat and changed the tempo. After that they started improvising with other sounds.
I think that listening to the other groups has really helped me because they’ve given me different ideas which are useful for my group.
