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Small assignment: Minimalism improvisation
Create a minimalist improvisation playing together in a group, gradually changing one rhythm to another.
Assignment author
Esa Ylivaara
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Basics
Group size
Minimum time required
Minimum time required
Goal and output
Pedagogical goal
Introduction to the minimalist style.
Active listening to others while focusing on keeping your own rhythm steady.
Concrete output
An improvised minimalist soundscape
Work progress
- Use the diatonic scale.
- Have someone start a rhythmic ostinato and have the others join in one at a time, each with a different rhythm.
- Once everyone has been playing their ostinatos for a while, each may change in their own time to another ostinato with a different rhythm. The idea is that the overall rhythmic texture should gradually change into something else.
Topics in the assignment
Musical elements
Musical structures and analysis
Playing an instrument & singing
Musical structures and analysis
Playing an instrument & singing
Listening
Notation & music terminology
Arranging & parts
Music technology
Notation & music terminology
Arranging & parts
Music technology
Improvisation & interaction
Styles & techniques
Imagination & other arts
Styles & techniques
Imagination & other arts
Tools
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