Forum - Week 4 – Collaborations

In this forum, the topic was "Collaborations". Three different people led the discussion, all with different topics. The first topic was led by David and was all about the collaboration between the heavy metal band Metallica, and conductor........ To me this was the most interesting topic, mainly because I am a bit of a Metallica fan myself, and although I do agree that this collaboration worked, I am personally not a huge fan of the production, and I do know that many other Metallica fans did not like the collaboration either, which could lead us to believe that the collaboration was not ‘successful’ as such.

The next talk was from Vinny, and was about a musician named Trilok Gurtu. Trilok was a leading figure in the collaboration of Eastern and Western music. I found this talk interesting because Vinny played a fair amound of music as well.

Following Vinny was Will, who did a talk about collaborations between people making video games, and people making music for video games.

Finally was Sanad, who led what was probably the most 'forumatic(??)' conversation yet. Sanad simply stated ‘What is world music” and then let us have an argument about it, which is to me what forums should me about.

Overall a good week with some interesting topics and interpretations, although I am still quite confused about my topic, Construction and Deconstruction in music, so if anyone has any idea, please do tell...

Sayonara