Third Prize in UnCaged Toy Piano Competition
Archive for June, 2008
Emergent forms and themes in performance and culture in the first decade of C21 Edited By Peter Eckersall And Helena Grehan Online Now www.performanceparadigm.net PERFORMANCE PARADIGM No 4, 2008. Featuring reviews of recent books by Rustom Bharucha, Mike Pearson, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris and the enormous Performance Cosmology from CPR in Wales. We also have Meg Mumford’s detailed analysis of recent publications on contemporary theatre in Europe by and Maggie Philiips’ discussion of new work by Ramsay Burt . The articles section features new essays from a number of established and emerging scholars in the field. The topic of new forms and paradigms in performance emerges in essays such as Kate Rossmanith’s account of Bio Art, Jeffrey Morris’s discussion of digital music performance and Diana Smith’s account of Sydney based visual artists ‘The Kingpins’. We are especially excited to be publishing Meiling Cheng’s recent exploration of recent performance work in China.
From elementary school through college, music composition and theory pedagogy often focuses on beginning from a set a “safe” rules. While this demonstrates some reasons why familiar music sounds “right,” such exercises rarely produce expressive or interesting music. Such compositions are typically void of dots and accidentals and do not much resemble “real” musical works–something about the musical experience is missing from approaches like these.
In the following process, students rely heavily on listening and spatial reasoning, and they learn not to be afraid of wrong notes and revising. Because the process begins with a poem and includes drawing a graphic score, this project could be tied into learning goals in Reading and Art classes.