Improvised Song-making Activity

Example of 1-bar phrase; melodic ideas using theme-based words: Gymnastics + Dogs, ft. a feeling about hobbies/dogs

Words used: Gymnastics, Pugs, Back-Handspring, Shiba Inu, Singing, Happy

Used looping software with singular students - Loopy HD on iOS

Example of 2-bar phrase; melodic ideas using completely random words (no theme provided)

Words used: Beautiful, Butterfly, Bird, Turtle, Chocolate Ice Cream, Flower

Used looping software with singular students - Loopy HD on iOS

Bobby McFerrin improvising in real time and having the audience follow; not accompaniment-based, but more of a call-and-response activity.

Bobby McFerrin's "Say Ladeo" performed by CASMEC's 2017 Vocal Jazz Ensemble (I'm in here!!)

The entire song is pretty much a circle song, but the director, Roger Treece, incorporated a live, improvised circle-singing section in the middle (starting at 03:53) with some improvisation in the high voices created by one of the soprano students.