Experimenting with music

Experimenting is a dynamic process that is fundamental to music-making. Experimenting is connected to the musical processes of exploring and presenting. In experimenting, you will connect theoretical studies to practical work and gain deeper understanding of the music that you engage with.

In the process of experimenting with music, you will engage more deeply with music to develop and refine your musical decisions, practise your musical skills and develop musical works as you:

• select musical prompts or stimuli for their work and to inform your musical decisions. You will work with selected relevant findings from diverse musical material

• apply your knowledge, conceptual understandings and skills to your work while experimenting with musical material

• develop ideas and work as a creator by experimenting with creating conventions and techniques, and as a performer by experimenting with performing practices and techniques

• practise through the processes of trialling, refining and revising musical material. You will learn to control and personalize practical and technical skills in creating, producing and performing music

• evaluate/reflect critically on your music-making and consider how the use of your findings will affect your work. You will discuss the challenges encountered—and any possible solutions.