Experimenting as a Creator

Experimenting as a creator

Throughout the course you will engage in activities to trial and shape musical ideas and develop new skills in composing, improvising and arranging to help you understand how music is constructed.

Your research and experiments will be applied to your own work, paying attention to:

• the intention and purpose of music in context

• the use of musical elements, including, but not limited to, duration, dynamics, harmonic and/or melodic developments, pitch, rhythm, structure and form, texture, timbre, tonality

• use of production elements and techniques.

You will submit 3 related recordings of experiments in the form of audio files (5 minutes)

What should you do as a creator in experimenting?

• identify and respond to musical prompts and

• stimuli

• experiment with unfamiliar elements

• apply findings to inform the experimentation process

• make musical decisions to develop practical work.

Journal

Regular notes of the experimentation process

Audio/video recordings of the process of experimentation

Evidence of experiments in diverse local and global musics and less familiar or unfamiliar styles

Links to the areas of inquiry