When I lead a free improvisation session, I generally get people to focus on two things:
1) To paraphrase from "Dead Poets Society" (movie, 1989) - your ideas can be simple, just don't let them be boring. This can involve drone & repetition (as long as it's interesting).
2) if you've got more than two or more elements (i.e., instruments, people, etc.), it should be conversational. No one likes the person that monopolizes the conversation, the end result is always richer if everybody contributes, and it should have an ebb & flow like a normal conversation.
ted h.
Enemies are good for self-definition. Werner Herzog
--- On Thu, 1/21/10, margaret noble <margaretnoble2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: margaret noble <margaretnoble2000@yahoo.com>
Subject: If you had to state 5 rules of a successful music composition for 12th grade students...
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Received: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 6:03 PM
Hello Loopers List, This thread could turn into a complicated philosophical discussion. I aim rather to put your ideas in a box for my students to have a performance criterion/check list of what they should nail on their first electronic music composition based on the simplicity of Reason and "Fair Use" sampling in Protools. It is assumed that they have no previous music knowledge and are forging their way through to try and find a measure of success. So, I'd love to hear your top 5 (or more) descriptors/performance criteria of a "successful" composition.
Margaret Noble - Sound ArtistSound is Art Magazine - http://margaretnoble.net/soundisartArtist Website - http://margaretnoble.net/New Record Label - http://femrecords.com/
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