Attention, attention!

GRAB a strangers ear

LIGETI: Grand Macabre Car Horn Prelude Making music out of sounds in your environment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRUuiPgSfww Tradition? Repetition? What are the ceremonies in your daily life?
Raga scales----------Yaman up and down

avoid major and minor scales - EXPLORE whole tone modes pentatonic Indonesian scales PELOG - B,C,E,F,G

Composing for Space the power of different acoustics performing from balconies, trees, ceilings or floors
Harmonic Series the natural voice? How to structure ONE MINUTE of music? Does a 60 second piece start life as a 60 minute piece?
Look a for new ways to structure music:
Architecture, nature, poetry, maths and sport
These all rely upon structures to help organise elements and inspire!

CREATING FANFARES from scratch

Can you capture the intrinsic voice of a room, a space, or a person? SAMI YOIK S CARTOON MUSIC
Electronic music Play a landscape Make a list of titles for pieces of music
Sa mpl ing an d re cording soun ds f r om y ou r envi r on ment Dedicate music to a friend that dont exist (yet) thinking about
Listen to as many different pieces think about how they start. Compose your favourite food how it starts rather than a long narrative.
How do you and your music connect? EG. SURPRISE, CREEPING UP, ALIEN BRASS BAND
Using these and a group of friends play them in quick
succession.
Record-----a new part, played over the START of one of your favourite pieces
Listening------IMPROVISE-----RECORD----Select the bits you like--------
Notate
Play again-------
Record------------start over
Dedicate your music to a friend or idol! Find new rules for letters that dont work as notes from the scale for example: Invent a short musical pattern, use rests,
use recorded sounds, use your voice, find words or images for example, N could be Neverending, R could be Raucous Rhythmic Raga etc

Listen to Orlando Goughs Fanfare for David Buckland

Think about music as a means of communicating over long distances

telegrams text messages letters semaphore hunting calls sounds that have resonance

Watch: THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE on You Tube http:// www. yo utube.co m/ ro yal ope ra ho use# p/a
Choose your favourite note
Ask 4 other people for theirs (or make them up) trying to avoid using major or minor triads! This works well with random pitches
Write them in a circle like this

andgive each NOTE a NUMBER Play them as a chord

Then as a melody 1,2,3,4,5 or backwards
Then as variants - 1,5,4,3,2 and all other combinations
Things to make you go back to your seat after the interval! Play with superimposed RHYTHMS from texts

From these pitch sets and rhythms choose the parts that YOU like.