Draft P2
This week was about setting music to a fragment of a landscape, and it was a group collaboration. The first thing was to draw a sketch based on an idea, and this is our group’s sketch. This sketch was not just a random drawing; we folded the piece of paper and drew lines along where the paper was folded. The lines are drawn in different ways (solid or dashed) to express the height of the sound, whether it is a background sound or a subject. The same lines divide the whole drawing into different parts, which can be played with different instruments or devices. We discussed this a lot and then started to choose our instruments. At first, I wanted to choose a ukulele, but I found out that some people in the group had chosen to pick an instrument, and also that some people were going to sing with a microphone, so I chose a secondary instrument in case there was the main melody. This is it (P 2). I’m not quite sure what this is exactly, but it feels a lot like a finer roll of film. It sounds like a sand hammer in the water or the sound of waves. I also chose it because I thought it sounded hazy and I could imagine it as a fog sound.
I’ve been exposed to immersive sound before, but I’ve listened to it through headphones. The immersive sound is very interesting to me, especially when it’s me playing it. The group was randomly assembled; we hadn’t worked together before, and there was no rehearsal before we played. It was kind of a live performance, but I think it worked well together. It was a bit of a free and random performance that made the sound of nature.