2012 CVS Week 1 Drawing to Music

Hi all,
this first week we introduced CVS through making marks whilst responding to music & sound.
Rationale:-
to break down pre-conceptions with reference to cultural expectation of visuality through the use of analogy and metaphor.
The majority of  these learners are culturally conditioned to accept orchestrated/organised sound which does not immediately or directly mimic, imitate or echo environmental ( natural and man-made) sounds as  "music"  yet this same culture expects its visual manifestations to be definitive, descriptive and literal ( representational, figurative, illusionistic), to have narrative and conclusions.
By creating a studio workshop where  "music" and sound  emanate from outside their cultural mainstream is carefully listened to,  the learner may experience a sonic space which removes them further and further from the familiar and predictable. By responding to this aural exploration with a visual mechanical activity that confines itself to elemental mark-making (dot &line), the learner will be engaged with the fundamental and basic origins of visual making, a visual tabula rasa.
Perceived levels of skill are challenged in these exercises where an educational parity of esteem is endeavored.
From this blank slate the learners will go on to explore and develop both their skills and understanding.

• Each episode of Music/Sound was accompanied by an activity- active listening with mark-making or active listening without mark-making. Group discussion and  response is a vital part of this first immersive experience.

Tuesday September 10 2012          Day 1

Music                              Time        Composer/Performer            Activity                                                    

1. Drumming I                 17.30      Steve Reich                               listen,visualize, discuss.    
2. Spiegel im Spiegel       10.22      Arvo Part                                  dot & line / ink wash on paper
3. Hado                            1.52        Amina Aloui                             ditto on half page
4. Kalimankoudenkov       5.10       LeMystereDesVoixBulgares    ditto on 2nd half of page
5. repeat of no.3                                                                                as above but now
6. repeat of no.4                                                                                informed by previous listening
7. Save That                     3.12        Erik Satie                                  continuous mark on paper
                                                                  Lunch
8. 4.33                              9.23        John Cage on YouTube            watch & discuss
9. How to listen to music...32.20    Evelyn Glennie on TED.com    watch & discuss
10.Sea Inlet Scotland        3.01       A Year in Wild Britain               listen & discuss
11.Honda Car ad              2.09       Hollywood Film Chorale
     on YouTube                              Sound Effect Choir                     listen & discuss
12.Silbo Gomero              2.02       busuu.com YouTube                  watch & discuss
11. Akio Suzuki on          5.44       Film by Helen Petts on You
      Walthamstowe Marshes           Tube                                            watch
                                                       
                                                          Aidan Linehan 2012