Our class this week was a bit shorter than normal.
To begin, we had a bit of a recap on last week's class and discussed a little about the assignment given last week. The main point of this discussion was to go a bit more into the fear aspect of how we are able to act when it comes down to being in a pressured situation or possibly a judgmental one. One of the other students presented what he made for the assignment. I did not see how it tied in with the self portrait picture he was given, but his work did have a self portrait type theme, without any visuals. It was an audio file that sounded like a whole bunch of different sounds put together in a chaotic manner, it didn't sound be be like any song I had heard before, unless I count "On Mount Golgotha", though I don't consider it a song since it's impossible to complete. (That's a different story.) The interesting part to it was that it was all made using one instrument that he plays, I think it was either a Tuba or an Oboe.
After listening to his piece, Beth showed a couple of videos to us of a guy who makes music out of anything; yes indeed, anything. The two videos we watched were of him making music from a tree and from a dry cleaner's place. The best part of it was that the music was actually enjoyable and did seem to capture the essence of the items that it was made from. What I took from it was that creativity can be made using the most unlikely of objects and does not necessarily need to be presented in expected fashion.
A rather short class, but I still learned a bit from it. I'm looking forward to next class where we can finish the lecture and present this week's assignments.
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