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It is a little disappointing that we will no longer have any of David Harris’s tripped out offerings to look forward to on a Thursday afternoon. This class will be replaced with the improvisation project. My personal experience with group work at uni thus far has lended me to trying to avoid it where possible. Nevertheless, going by last weeks workshops, things may well be different- the Music Tech’ers seem and enthusiastic bunch. My randomly selected group contains four members from my year: david, ben, matt and myself. The other members are Dragos Nastasie and Adrian Reid who are second and third years’ respectively. So far not much in the way of themes or have surfaced, while many ideas have been thrown around. Ambience has been affronted quite thoroughly, I was hoping this might turn into some kind of right-wing new-music crusade, but so far we only decided that chords will be used. But what chords?

I must c e the rest of my group for their effort in bringing instruments along for last weeks session. It sure inspired me to want to be ready with something for this Thursday. For this, I am thinking of composing a few drum loops in Sibelius, making them sound cool in Reason and finally improvising with them using Ableton’s Live. This program is the muse of Creative Computing at the status quo. Another option I was considering was to learn some SuperCollider. Adrian mentioned that he is thinking of doing something with it, so it might be a good opportunity to get into it. I know the JITLib interface is tailored for live applications. I only know about || much SuperCollider though, so I might just be barking up the wrong tree. I will talk to Adrian about it.

My experience with ‘playing music’ is far older than that of my improvisation. This certainly is not something I boast proudly, but as they say, sometimes that’s the way the cookie crumbles. I have to say that I will be glad to discover myself as an improviser.