Saturday, June 04, 2005
Timbre performance
Today I started this blog as part of the individual assignment of the DMAT Performance module. Well, it was also Friday - which was the last day of the first official week I had in polytechnic. Yippee... polytechnic life rocks! However, life's not all-perfect. It's the hectic timetable, which ranges anytime from 9am to 5pm that bores/tires me out.
This week's performance "theme" (music dimension) was "Timbre". It's basically tone colour - the different qualities of sound that different instruments make, although a single instrument itself may have various timbres according to whether we hit it, stroke it, blow it or use it in a different way.
My performance group, "Climax", had only TWO real rehearsals prior to the actual performance - one the day before and the other minutes before the actual show. We had an array of pipes, kitchen utensils, pianica boxes (strangely!) and a few other percussion instruments.
1st try. Overall, we kept to a constant rhythm strictly, but we found out that we were supposed to focus on "timbre" instead - as it was the theme. Our piece was too monotonous - not enough variations. One good part we got right though was the climax - the finale of our piece.
2nd try. This time around, everyone's performances were better after we were given some time to brush up on our pieces. The significant change for my group's piece was, of course, in the timbre. We started with vocal timbres of a major scale. Thereafter, we experimented with more ways of using our instruments and split ourselves up into parts (with different parts playing at one time) so that the piece would not sound so "draggy". I felt that my group bonded together well during the rehearsals and actual performance, proving that we had TEAMWORK, one crucial and essential aspect of any group performance if it were to be successful.
12:04 pm *
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Timbre performance
Today I started this blog as part of the individual assignment of the DMAT Performance module. Well, it was also Friday - which was the last day of the first official week I had in polytechnic. Yippee... polytechnic life rocks! However, life's not all-perfect. It's the hectic timetable, which ranges anytime from 9am to 5pm that bores/tires me out.
This week's performance "theme" (music dimension) was "Timbre". It's basically tone colour - the different qualities of sound that different instruments make, although a single instrument itself may have various timbres according to whether we hit it, stroke it, blow it or use it in a different way.
My performance group, "Climax", had only TWO real rehearsals prior to the actual performance - one the day before and the other minutes before the actual show. We had an array of pipes, kitchen utensils, pianica boxes (strangely!) and a few other percussion instruments.
1st try. Overall, we kept to a constant rhythm strictly, but we found out that we were supposed to focus on "timbre" instead - as it was the theme. Our piece was too monotonous - not enough variations. One good part we got right though was the climax - the finale of our piece.
2nd try. This time around, everyone's performances were better after we were given some time to brush up on our pieces. The significant change for my group's piece was, of course, in the timbre. We started with vocal timbres of a major scale. Thereafter, we experimented with more ways of using our instruments and split ourselves up into parts (with different parts playing at one time) so that the piece would not sound so "draggy". I felt that my group bonded together well during the rehearsals and actual performance, proving that we had TEAMWORK, one crucial and essential aspect of any group performance if it were to be successful.
12:04 pm *
