Week 6 Forum

Our improvisation session today went reasonably well. I didn’t arrive until 2.00pm, when the class started, but some enthusiasts had arrived earlier and where already making some music. I improvised on the keyboard today and I think I am going to keep that up. Mainly because I am comfortable with the piano and I know how to improvise with it.

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I still think feel that this whole improvisation idea is dragging on a bit too long. We need more variety in our forum rather than doing the same every week. By the end of the semester it won’t be improvisation anymore because we are just going to continue what we’ve been doing beforehand.

Our presenters today were Tyrell, Poppi, Josh and Albert. Tyrell was first and he played some music he composed for a video game company. When I presented my music I played some music I was writing for a video game company. It is the same company. I thought Tyrell’s music was very suited for a game and I think his orchestration was really good despite what he thought. The music he wrote for the kids game was really good too. One of the pieces that Tyrell played reminded me of the game Unreal Tournament. [2]

Poppi was next and she played some short movies she had done music and sound for. I thought these clips were very artistic and I was impressed at her work. There was a variety of music using found sounds and her voice. Great work. [3]

Josh was next and he played his musique concrete piece, i.e. Creative Computing from semester one. I thought the piece sounded very metallic with lots of modulation. It was very interesting. I can’t really comment on whether it was good or not because to me all musique concrete pieces sound the same. [4]

Finally Albert played us a jazz recording. I thought it sounded really good but that’s probably because I love the genre. The recording attributes were great. Nice work. [5]

[1] Vividest World. ‘Music Hall’, Vinkeys. http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicHall/6548/jpg/asr.jpg (Accessed 16th October 2006)

[2] Tyrell Blackburn. 'Music Technology Forum Presentation - EMU Space'. Lecture presented in the EMU Space, Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, 31st August 2006.

[3] Poppi Doser. 'Music Technology Forum Presentation - EMU Space'. Lecture presented in the EMU Space, Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, 31st August 2006.

[4] Josh Schulz. 'Music Technology Forum Presentation - EMU Space'. Lecture presented in the EMU Space, Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, 31st August 2006.

[5] Albert Webster. 'Music Technology Forum Presentation - EMU Space'. Lecture presented in the EMU Space, Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, 31st August 2006.