Creative Artefacts
The Group Improvisation Project
The Project
- Divide everyone into smaller groups of three or four composers each.
- Each group should spend fifteen minutes preparing for an improvisation lasting no more than eight minutes and no less than four minutes. Each goup's improvisation will be tape recorded.
- Between you, divide your improvisation up into reasonably equal sections, bearing in mind that faster, more active music generally requires more work.
- Discuss the general shape of the taped material and decide whether any general areas could be improved upon, for instance, by returning to a previous texture more than once, or by not returning to a previous texture at all, (or by never getting to it in the first place).
- Decide on a set of instruments that you feel appropriate for the piece: use conventional instruments if you wish. Keep the instrumentation within the composition group unless you can garantee that another instrumentalist is available.
- Re-compose the piece in fully-notated form according to the divisions you agreed upon earlier. Keep checks with each other, especially over areas such as the joins between sections.
- Write the parts out according to the usual rules, etc...
Some Ideas
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General Notes from the last time this was done
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A few other general points:
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Good luck!