Methods (messy notes)

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Week 2 - 18/09/2024

  • Protocols for improvisation
  • the post-script umanthology
  • Rod Dickinson
  • wiki page - protocols for improvisation directory
  • Anthony Braxton notation notes
  • Sun Ra - came from the 'magic city'. Re-translating real political problems into the transcendental.
  • Scratch directory - also called rapid prototyping. Examples: Nature study notes.
  • Treatise: Cornelius Cardew
  • Protocols are blurring the difference between artist and professional musician, allowing for a lot of threshold of skill.

Exercise performed in class

  • Write a series of protocols
  • Perform
  • Cover at least one
  • Scratch orchestra - the need to 'professionalise' such methods.

Protocols

  • Generative
  • We are not aware/ we do not propose - it generates itself.
  • Be open to what happens.
  • Difference in 'cover': one 'product' moving and the rest being interpreted differently.

Protocols
1. Generative
2. Rehearsal
3. Groups

  • Field recording as material.
  • Rehearsal: How to make a 'longform' - think about duration (our orientation for Monday).
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