N.B. This is a description of activity from Sept 2011
Hi again. Blaise, Seamus and myself were in the CM hall again with those who weren't doing Life Drawing and we dealt again with much the same issues as Tuesday but the media used was ink and wash using a range of soft hair brushes on paper. We initiated the day's activity with a brief intro and then played Reich's "Drumming Part 1" as a listening exercise. We then discussed what visual impressions the students had whilst listening to the piece of music.
The students then went to work using ink and brush and being conscious of the ability to express tone as a visual manifestation of variation in sound. The music they responded to was Part's "Spiegel im Spiegel 1" using a singular brush.
After a tea break work resumed with the notion of duality being introduced- two brushes were to be used simultaneously, one in a dark tone , the other lighter. Sound- David Heath's "The Frontier".
They thus dealt with the various elements and principles such as balance, composition, contrast, juxtaposition whilst struggling to create two marks at the same time.
The next exercise combined construction and destruction in that the positive marks made had then to be obliterated or erased. Therefore erasure could be seen as not necessarily a negative action but as an integral part of a creative process (transformation). The sounds were Trihornophone's "BreathingTime"and Ardal Alpha"s "Single Engine".
There followed a half hour seminar led off by Blaise, examining the resulting work hung in the annex where a wide range of topics emerged from aesthetics to cultural expectation, intention etc., etc.
After lunch the learners were allowed to response with less strictures to sound and these longer sessions led to the paper being more intensely worked.
After a short break Seamus directed a very different activity which I will leave him to explain but it was one that was very thoughtful and powerful.
As regards Friday, I don't know how it will go but if anyone wants to experience something very different and yet completely familiar you might look at the following links
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