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PoL: all good things must come to an end
It's been a wild ride, and I'm glad we went out with matching outfits. The day of the PoL was quite busy, assembling the final bits to...
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Comp#10: Mixing and final score edits
After listening to the recording, I added in more markings to make the changes in vibrato more obvious to the performers, since it...
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Comp#9: Recording
15/10/12 After finally finding a time that everyone was free, I used a zoom recorder in an ensemble room to record my quartet playing the...
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Comp#8: Fixing it up
10/11/12 After going through the feedback from the rehearsal I went through and fixed the score, ready for recording (here's the pdf). I...
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Comp#7: Workshopping
05/11/18 At rehearsal today I workshopped the piece with my quartet, it was so cool hearing it come to life! I recorded the whole session...
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Comp#6: Getting ready to workshop
04/11/18 Tomorrow I workshop the piece with my quartet at rehearsal, so today I needed to finish transfering the piece from the logic...
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Comp#5: Models
03/11/18 While I've been using Bree's piece as a model (due to the baby steps), I decided to look to other pieces for help with this...
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Comp#4: Peer Feedback
02/11/18 The response for my composition was quite positive, which was encouraging. Here are the responses I had from the googleform that...
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Comp#3: Playing around on logic cont.
01/11/18 I continued my last session playing around in logic, after recording some other ways to possibly to do the opening, I decided to...
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Comp#2 - Playing around on logic
30/10/18 After the tutorial with Jim, I decided to ditch my score for violin, flute and piano in favour of writing for string...
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Comp#1: Taking my draft to Jim
23/10/18 While I haven't had much time to work on my composition so far, after listening to Bree Van Reyk's Light for the First Time, I...
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MYOD Project Update
We now have a name for the overall project, and more importantly, WE DID IT! Check out the finished product (and what feels like my baby...
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SCMTME#13: Final Provocations
While today was intended to be a review of the content and ideas taught throughout the semester, I learnt quite a lot. Even after the...
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SCMTME#12: The Birth of the BMT (TME Major Project)
Today was dedicated to our major negotiated projects. Despite our earlier meetings, we all weren't exactly sure how we would present the...
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Scaffolding Adventure
Creating a compositional process that could be personalised while also being safely scaffolded was challenging. However, the way Bree...
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Composition Edition
In all the subjects and assignments of this degree so far, we get to practice designing and planning activities that engage and extend...
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SCMTME#11: Mix-Up, Mash-Up
Today was all about remixing (again tying nicely from last lesson)! First we looked at the amazing French DJ Madeon, who was completely...
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SCMTME#10: Performance Technologies
24/10/18 This lecture extended on the technologies we started looking at last week, and ended up with us playing around with heaps of...
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Arranging Façades
Façades by Philip Glass is an ideal piece to incorporate principles of Orff, aural learning and mixed bag arranging. As well as this,...
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SCMTME#9: BYOD
BYOD is becoming commonplace in schools, with the individual ownership of various devices becoming ubiquitous in Australia. However, the...
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