today is sunday
This was one of the more satisfying Sundays I have had in a while. I've realized that there are some student-y things that I'd been missing -- working in public spaces with friends, looking at potential music, going to class!
I am taking my friends' ExCo, Experimental Typography. Here's the definition written by the co-instructors, Christopher and Ezra:
After our first class meeting today, Christopher and I ran around campus looking for a peaceful place to sit. Our requirements: public, full of natural light, good seating options, and good background noise (preferably a fountain). Our first choice would have been the Environmental Studies building, which has these amazing rocking chairs. (I love rocking chairs so, so very much.) But that was locked, so we made our way to the Science Center atrium and found the couches there unoccupied. I read the Review and made comments to Christopher (who is currently the production manager for the paper) while he made a plan for what he's going to compose this year. (Oh, and we both had coffee from the Oberlin Market. That shit is strong!)
Lastly, I met with a composer who is writing a piece for 2 sopranos (soprani? somehow both pretentious and silly), 2 horns, and percussion. It involves a lot of extended technique -- screaming, making high 'hooting'-type sounds, half-whispering -- and looks hard as hell. But Sam is very willing to articulate in words and sounds what he is going for, since sometimes scores are really hard to write. Plus, he's open to discussion of what is and isn't possible for a classically-trained singer, so that no one is killing her voice.
We'll see how this piece goes; thinking about music and talking through the score with Sam was really fun. It's going to be on his senior recital, so I need to make sure it's something I can pull off, but I think it'll work. And good work, at that! I definitely need to sing more, and this will be a good and challenging way to do it.
I am taking my friends' ExCo, Experimental Typography. Here's the definition written by the co-instructors, Christopher and Ezra:
EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY challenges typography’s conventional role as a tool for communication, either by questioning its involvement in the communication process or by denying it a communicative function. Inasmuch as the term “typography” refers both to a practice and a resultant object, experimental typography seeks to alter the methods of typographic production as well as the product itself.I am going to learn the basic terminology of typography, some of its history and ways to manipulate it on a computer, and MAKE ART! That's what I'm really excited about. Well, actually the theoretical stuff is pretty exciting, too.
After our first class meeting today, Christopher and I ran around campus looking for a peaceful place to sit. Our requirements: public, full of natural light, good seating options, and good background noise (preferably a fountain). Our first choice would have been the Environmental Studies building, which has these amazing rocking chairs. (I love rocking chairs so, so very much.) But that was locked, so we made our way to the Science Center atrium and found the couches there unoccupied. I read the Review and made comments to Christopher (who is currently the production manager for the paper) while he made a plan for what he's going to compose this year. (Oh, and we both had coffee from the Oberlin Market. That shit is strong!)
Lastly, I met with a composer who is writing a piece for 2 sopranos (soprani? somehow both pretentious and silly), 2 horns, and percussion. It involves a lot of extended technique -- screaming, making high 'hooting'-type sounds, half-whispering -- and looks hard as hell. But Sam is very willing to articulate in words and sounds what he is going for, since sometimes scores are really hard to write. Plus, he's open to discussion of what is and isn't possible for a classically-trained singer, so that no one is killing her voice.
We'll see how this piece goes; thinking about music and talking through the score with Sam was really fun. It's going to be on his senior recital, so I need to make sure it's something I can pull off, but I think it'll work. And good work, at that! I definitely need to sing more, and this will be a good and challenging way to do it.
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