Reflection: the Sound cloud

Task: reflect on the sound cloud you will hear - how can you create a sound cloud with your piece?

First piece of song:
Starting sounds like suspense music it is slowly growing, it starts of slow and is slowly producing a much louder sound. There seems to be a mixture of more than one piece of music playing, it sounds louder each time and you feel like you are living that action. It follows a dark theme you can tell by the horrid laughter sounds, and sudden movements, you could hear chants that got louder from whispers to shouting voices, it also sounded like fire is burning and you can feel the fire growing/building up bigger an bigger. At one point you can hear a sudden stop and then continuing with a slow pace that soon grows as much as the last one although this time the music consists of different voices and the music turns intense, and then there is a sudden STOP. End of the music piece.

Second piece of song: 
this song seems to follow a different pattern then the older song, the starting seems to be quite, dull and high pitched. more music sounds appear you can make out that there are two toy boxes being played at the same time, after the music is continuos to this it then starts to show a bit of build up in the song, you can hear a woman whispering, soon her whispers grow louder, you can also hear some of the toy boxes from before in the background. This abstract piece of music tells a story, you feel a little scared. It feels like someone is doomed. You feel like there is a storm coming.

Edited staff

I have changed how my prime order fits on the music staff because my older one was hard to record, although next time I will try to do a more challenging notes on the staff.

Prime order on Staff - 32 beats

I have decided to do the first 16 beats as the original prime order and the other 16 beats are going to be retrograde which is one of the 4 main transformations that can be applied to the prime order, retrograde means reversed notes.This is the only time a note can be repeated (once).

Prime order on a staff

Today in class we all looked at a game that helped us develop some skills that are required in serialism and prime order. After the prime order has been decided now you need to place your notes on a staff. We were given an option to either draw notes on the staff or use alphabets. Since most of us were struggling to place proper notes on the staff we played a game where we learnt what note is placed where on the staff and in which order it is placed in. The game first explained the notes that are found in the spaces of the staff. These notes are F.A.C.E, we realised that this spells "Face" making it much easier to remember. We played a few rounds until most of us were confident and we understood these notes on the staff well. Then later on we learnt the notes on the line which had the letters E.G.B.D.F, although this does not sound like any word. So we made each letter stand for something in order to remember the order of the lines on the staff. I chose this for my line staff notes Every Good Boy Deserves Football, although there can be many more abbreviations, depending on whatever you found the easiest to remember.

This picture below shows the letters that fit in the lines and spaces of the staff:

My prime order on a staff:

Serialism -Primary Tone

Serialism

Reflection on Performance Art

In today's lesson Ms.Ruiz asked us to pick a group of people to make a group with 6 people in my group there was me (Muskan), Aamnah, Ameenah, Zenia, Amr and Mehul. Together we had to create some kind of movement that matched the music that Ms.Ruiz was playing. the name of the abstract music was Core Chant by Meredith Monk. So, my group together collaborated and decided to start with a circle formation and since the music was at a slow pace and it was continuously slow all the way through except for the end which was,  a sudden change in music it grew louder and then there was a sudden stop which was the ending of the song. I feel that my group did a good job because we all took part and collaborated well with each other. We respected each others' ideas and portrayed them in the performance whenever possible. we all had quite unique and special ideas that matched the abstract music we were listening to. I feel that my group portrayed a fairly balanced and organised performance that was good all the way through the music. Our movement followed the music and our team work was quite good. I felt that our movements correlated with the music and we used our knowledge of abstract music that we had looked at in the previously lesson helped us in forming good actions that match with the music.

Group information
Group 1 (David and Ali Reza's group) - This group did a scene that went with the abstract music. This group did an act of being in the jungle 5 of them were pretending to be animals (looked like lions walking in the jungle) and there was 1 hunter with a tranquilizer gun. The hunter started to shoot the animals one by one. They all are walking around in a steady pace very slowly to match their movement with the music, then one of them goes slowly towards the hunter and takes his tranquilizer gun and then the 3 lions gang up on the hunter and kill him, then the 3 lions go to the other 2 lions that died and remove the tranquil from their body and they come back to life and eat the hunter. In the end when the music suddenly gets louder all the lions die except one because he is the one who kills them with the tranquilizing gun and then he almost kills himself and then the music stops.

Does the movement depict the music?
Group 1 (David and Ali Reza's group) - I think yes I do think that this group depict their movement to the music. I could clearly see they represented their work like a piece of art, they created a scene that matched the abstract music all the way through.

Are they working together as a group?
Group 1 (David and Ali Reza's group) - I think that this group worked very well as a group as they knew exactly what they were doing and coming towards the end when there was still some music left but they were done they collaborated very well and improvised well as a team.

How does the movement correlate with the music? 
Group 1 (David and Ali Reza's group) - The movement correlated with the music because the music was steady and very slow paced, and so was the performance that was made by this group. Previously in the music it was quite a slow pattern and it was continuously like that and this was portrayed well in their performance, their steps and movements matched the song from begging to end.

Group Information
Group 2 (Carline and Prachi's group) - This group started with a hand motion that was like a wave with all of them standing in a circle formation. Then slowly and steadily following the music pattern they started to move in that circle, then they slowly move in the middle of the circle one by one. Then one of them goes out of this circle and brings in 2 props (A phone and a folder). Then that person puts these 2 props in the middle of the circle, then all of the team members slowly sit down still following the pattern of the abstract music playing, then they started to worship the phone., this phone has a picture of Shrek. Then after a while Shrek dies so the picture has blood on Shrek's face, then they all continue to worship Shrek this time while whispering his name. Then after a while Shrek then comes back to life, this time on he phone there is no blood on Shrek's face. Now They keep the phone on a shelf and get back into a formation of a circle again and then they slowly move apart from each other, then they get into a line and start to act like elephants, and they used their hands to make a trunk and made some elephant noises. Now again they bring the phone and make a circle formation and keep the phone in the middle and start to worship it again, and as the music gets louder and faster tempo and pattern changes so does the speed of their worshiping. Then the abstract music stops and so does the group, this is the end.

Does the movement depict the music?
Group 2 (Carline and Prachi's group) - Yes this group did depict the music and follow the music all the way through. Their scene was matching the music tempo and pattern.

Are they working together as a group?
Group 2 (Carline and Prachi's group) - Yes I did see a lot of team work, I think that this group collaborated very well with each other and they seemed very well connected to the abstract music. The group also improvised near the end, and they still made it look like they were all continuing.

How does the movement correlate with the music?
Group 2 (Carline and Prachi's group) - The scene that this group did correlated with the music because they were very steady and slow in their performance, and you could see clearly their movements were well matched with the abstract music.

Reflection on Art and Music

Music

John Cage - First interluded for prepared piano: This piece of music sounds like different kind of drums being played. Even though the music is meant to be played with pianos I did not hear any piano in this music piece.

Steve Relch - Different Trains  - The music piece starts off quite, the tempo  is fast, the pitch of the music piece is high and the dynamics sound soft. The music piece has a steady pace all the way through, the pattern is consistent all the way in the music piece. The duration of the notes are short but slowly when you get into the music the duration of the notes get longer. The music seems balanced because, the arrangements of the elements to give the music piece harmony, so that the music piece sounds nice. I do not hear many gaps or breaks in between the music piece. The structure of the music starts off quite and then slowly develops and moves on to getting louder near the end.

Meredith Monk - Walking - The started off really quietly in a very high pitched voice by one person. the song then slowly became louder but still consistent with the high pitch all the way through. there is a consistent rhythm and pattern all the way through in the music piece. the duration of notes are long and one after the other. The texture of the melody of the music sounds quite thin and sounds like only one person is singing all the way through.

Eric Whitacre - Sleep - The starting dynamics of the music piece is very quite and sung in a high pitch. The tempo of the music is slow. In between the song there is a sudden burst of loud dynamic still consistent with high pitch. 

Art

Wassillg Delauney - Square with concentric rings - This art piece has no texture as it is not a 3D model that can be touched. In this picture I see a variety of different bright colors that stand out, and all these colors are balanced all of them are light colors that look good together. there is also a bit of contrast in some colors and the contrast is well done making the picture look beautiful. The artist has used the whole page and used their space wisely. The art form is made in 2D. The pattern of this art work are the squares and circles drawn repeatedly.There is an emphasis on the squares and circles to highlight them in the picture.

Robert Delauney - This piece of art has many colors and there is no specific place from where the reflection is coming from making all the colors look light in color. You can also clearly see many lines that have been used in the piece of art. The colors from the art piece seem to have merged together and there are a few lines used to create effects of different shapes put together such as a stair case kind of effect that you can see on the art work.

Sound of art

MYP: Inventing abstraction

Key Concept: Communication skills

Related Concept: Communication

Global Concept: Scientific and Technical innovation

Statement of inquiry: Symbols and conventions used to convey meaning can be transformed through new technological tools to create new contemporary art forms.

Inquiry Question: The inventors of Abstraction - How and why do artists communicate through abstraction? (Music and art students together.)

What is music? And what is music to you?

I think that music is a form of art because just like art even music has beauty. I think that music is created using different objects to produce sound in a way that interests someone. Music can be found around us, there are many objects in our surroundings that we can use in order to create lovely sounds which we call music. Examples for these objects could be drums, piano, violin, guitar, flute, and more. We have also seen other objects that can be used to create a nice tune we can use cups, spoons, and our hands to bang on the table in a pattern to create music. Music is sometimes used to show how someone feels. Usually, high pitched music is happy and low pitched is either sad or slow. A piece of music would contain some important things that make it sound like how it is such as, rhythm, melody, pitch, timbre, etc. Music has influenced many aspects of human life on Earth. Music has been with us for a long time and has also developed over time. Music sometimes may not have words but can still have a meaning determined depending on the tunes and harmony of the music, and the way it has been presented.

Introduction to my blog

My name is Muskan Dabur and I am in year 9D This is my MYP arts process journal. On this blog you will find documented evidence of my learning through the Arts: Art | Drama | Music. This term I am starting my learning journey in Music. My strongest Arts subject is Drama, I want to develop my skills in Art and Music.