Methods (messy notes)

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