Group A- In this first session,
Group A responded to sounds/music through the act of Drawing using
charcoal, pencil, marker etc. on paper.
Initially,
a piece of music was listened to without activity and afterwards the
students recorded their impression. They then wrote a few keywords that
described the same sonic experience. There was a wide gap between
the ability of the drawings and the words to describe the images
conjured up in the imagination of the listener. Images were personal and
specific whilst words are shared, agreed and understood (relatively!).
Therefore we acknowledge that "literal" imagery is not as effective at
communicating as an recognisable communication system such as language.
With that in mind, the remainder of the Drawings did not concern itself with illustrating what was being heard but instead these drawings recorded
the emotions or sonic sensation. The responses became more readily
physical as the session went on. Experimentation with media and
application resulted in allowing a level of control to be surrendered
with unpredictable results. These are acts of liberation from convention
as well as preconceptions of skills, value, worth etc.
We culminated with group shared works were every contribution is of equal validity in this learning context.
These exercises will be built on in the next session.
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