Forum - Week 3 - Compossible

In our last forum, we were given the interesting exercise of playing a song which lasted for 45 minutes. There were people singing, people playing percussion and people reading excerpts from books. It was not written as normal music though, only that we were to perform the action within a certain time, e.g. 2’30” – 3’00”. This was a very different exercise, and I can confidently say I have never done anything quite like it before. Although we were not given a specific reason of why we had to do this, I believe it was once again to give us a wider perspective of ‘what is music’. It was interesting to note some peoples reactions to this activity, some people thought it was a complete waste of time, whereas most others where indifferent. I personally was one of the indifferent people, although I thought it was an interesting and fun exercise, I think it would be more practical for us to be having forums on subjects more directly related to music technology.

Peace out.