Today we were informed of the "Noise Machine" performance as well as hearing more from the 3rd year composers.
Josh Cammak
The first piece he played us was an acousmatic piece recorded at the train station in Joondalup - when he told us this it made the sound sources much clearer. There was a lot of open spaces with interesting dynamics sweeping through the sonic spaces.
Josh then went on to show us his acoustic guitar music written with a pop sensitive edge. As the piece progressed it became obvious that he had thought more about the qualities of the chords and rhythmic placement of percussive elements in his compositions. He had used a concept in the composition of his music - which made me think of Frank Zappa (conceptual continuity) - that when an idea is developed, at what point does it become finished? This I thought created noticeable connections between his compositions but because they were deviations on past themes is it possible they could create one large piece? One thing I did notice in his music was that when he played the guitar he pushed and pulled the tempo of the music. For the first time in my life as a tempo focused drummer - it didn't resonate as if he was playing out of time it felt like it was being taken there deliberately (which is normally a faux pas in pop music)...
Aaron Wainwright
Aaron had written a piece called "Josten Myburgh in space" who is another composer at Waapa. It was a house/ dance piece which contained all the qualities necessary to be successful in the pop world. This was Aarons first attempt at writing a piece in this style - which i thought went pretty well. The other students picked up on some lacking parts to the piece, which I was none the wiser.
He then played us a piece written in a style similar to an author he had mentioned (which I failed to remember) where the whole piece is written in one sitting - start to finish with no middle deviations.
Jeremy
Jeremy is an honours students who is working on his thesis. The piece he played was called "2 Janitors". He started off by explaining to us the ideas behind his piece as well as the technical issues he had encountered. It starts of in a chordal canon and at the halfway point is retrograded thus creating a full piece. It was amazingly intricate both rhythmically and harmonically. It fused Latin and 20th century compositional ideas - this Jeremy intentionally incorporated due to the tonal similarities between these compositional practices. He handed out 2 copies of the full score that had been written in Logic - this made it hard for him to relocate it into Sibelius or Finale for further fine tuning.
The first piece he played us was an acousmatic piece recorded at the train station in Joondalup - when he told us this it made the sound sources much clearer. There was a lot of open spaces with interesting dynamics sweeping through the sonic spaces.
Josh then went on to show us his acoustic guitar music written with a pop sensitive edge. As the piece progressed it became obvious that he had thought more about the qualities of the chords and rhythmic placement of percussive elements in his compositions. He had used a concept in the composition of his music - which made me think of Frank Zappa (conceptual continuity) - that when an idea is developed, at what point does it become finished? This I thought created noticeable connections between his compositions but because they were deviations on past themes is it possible they could create one large piece? One thing I did notice in his music was that when he played the guitar he pushed and pulled the tempo of the music. For the first time in my life as a tempo focused drummer - it didn't resonate as if he was playing out of time it felt like it was being taken there deliberately (which is normally a faux pas in pop music)...
Aaron Wainwright
Aaron had written a piece called "Josten Myburgh in space" who is another composer at Waapa. It was a house/ dance piece which contained all the qualities necessary to be successful in the pop world. This was Aarons first attempt at writing a piece in this style - which i thought went pretty well. The other students picked up on some lacking parts to the piece, which I was none the wiser.
He then played us a piece written in a style similar to an author he had mentioned (which I failed to remember) where the whole piece is written in one sitting - start to finish with no middle deviations.
Jeremy
Jeremy is an honours students who is working on his thesis. The piece he played was called "2 Janitors". He started off by explaining to us the ideas behind his piece as well as the technical issues he had encountered. It starts of in a chordal canon and at the halfway point is retrograded thus creating a full piece. It was amazingly intricate both rhythmically and harmonically. It fused Latin and 20th century compositional ideas - this Jeremy intentionally incorporated due to the tonal similarities between these compositional practices. He handed out 2 copies of the full score that had been written in Logic - this made it hard for him to relocate it into Sibelius or Finale for further fine tuning.