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Playing together is not something that comes immediately to people, and forum certainly attested to this. All the same, the improvisation sounded pretty cool, I think it could have improved if people had taken cues, more often, from others. As Stephen mentioned we ‘wanted to avoided sounding like 15 solo performers playing at the same time’ and this was almost getting there.

Vinny would have to be ‘the’ crafty veteran 'round EMU when it comes to improvisatory art, and certainly kept this up during forum by running a video camera at the screen it’s displaying on, so as to create a spontaneous visualisation using the ‘auto-contrast’ on the video camera. I was quite impressed by what Vinny brought to the group.

I noticed John Delany may have been of the few performers adhering to the ‘prose score’ called “play” provided by Stephen. While this asked for short bursts of sound (from two to five seconds) most people just let there oscillators run wild.

I played along side Luke, and ended up merging my instrument with Lukes, using his peizo microphones to pickup the sounds coming from me. Playing a duet on Lukes instrument actually allowed us to craft the sound in a little more into the aesthetic of the score Whittington provided. Although to say there is an aesthetic to that score could be contentious.

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Whittington, Stephen 18.10.07, "Music Technology Forum," EMU, Adelaide University.