ABSTRACT SOUND CRITIQUE ON YOUR BLOG (for Thursday and Friday sections only)

Please write a critique of your colleague's Abstract Sound Piece. You will critique the sound piece they did not have critiqued in class.
1) Get their CD from them in class and make sure you know which sound piece was not critiqued in class.
2) Exchange email addresses as well.
3) Open up your blog, sign in, and create a new post
4) Answer the questions below on your blog. It will be helpful to me if you copy, cut and paste the questions into the blog and then answer them.
5) Once you have answered the questions, please email your colleague your critique so they have your feedback.

Write about the degree to which the artist addressed the objectives below. You will want to be very specific and back up any claim you make with an example and description from the sound work.
1) Clear achievement of your intended emphasis: rhythm or pitch.

2) Clear achievement and integration of simultaneous sounds into each work without creating music or using ordered language (i.e. avoid emphasis on a pyramidal sound structure). Listen for a sense of flow or movement forward in time without interruption.

3) Success in transporting the listener into such a state of focus that he or she experiences a state of flow as defined in your reading last week.


DEMETER SCENT ARTIST AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS

Listen to this artist follow his intuition throughout his creative process.

Extra credit opportunity for later in class after you are done critiquing:

If time allows listen to the interview at: http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/show041004.html

Listen to the short interview on SMELL.

Blog about the research methods of Demeter.

How does he pay attention?

What role does focus play in his creative process?

What kinds of questions do you think he asks himself once he has begun making a scent?

Can you make any parallels between how he balances aspects of a scent and how you balanced aspects of your abstract sound work? (There is no wrong answer here, just give this some thought and see whether or not it evokes any answers for you. It is a question that works for some and not for others and that is OK)