Experimenting as a Performer

Experimenting as a performer

Throughout the course you will engage in activities to develop your musical skills to communicate through technical proficiency, interpretation and expression.

You will experiment with the ways in which music can be communicated, paying attention to:

• performance techniques

• the use of musical elements, including, but not limited to, duration, dynamics, ornamentation, instrumental or vocal range, pitch, rhythm, texture, tempo, timbre

• interpretation(s), including, but not limited to, use of articulation, effects and other expressive and productive techniques, phrasing.

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

What should you do as a performer 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