SESSION 7
Tuesday 20th October
Year 10 & 11
Leader: Tid
Assistant: Kane Power
News and Reminders
- Especially for you is the Bristol Old Vic Young Company’s contribution to
the
Bristol jam which is taking place in the building all of this and next week.
Went
really well last week and will be performed again this Friday in the changing
rooms.
- It looks like Two is going to be the next young Company Show for the
spring
term. Start thinking of some exciting ideas.
- No session next week for HALF TERM.
- Get Buying for Our Country’s Good. Tickets are selling fast.
- Sign Up For the Spring Term.
- Get on the blog.
- PHIL MINTON WORKSHOP.
We spent the first 30 mintues of the session in a workshop with Phil Minton:
“Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has
sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph
Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with
his own ensemble. He even once participated in a Jimi Hendrix tribute project,
belting out the lyrics in particular over-the-top fashion.
He is perhaps best known, however, for his completely free-form work, which
involves "extended techniques" that are extremely unsettling. His vocals often
include the sounds of retching, burping, screaming, and gasping, as well as childlike
muttering, whining, crying and humming; he also has an ability to distort his vocal
cords to produce two notes at once. As the DJ/poet Kenneth Goldsmith has described
it:
Minton's range on this disc A Doughnut in One Hand, FMP runs from the sounds of a
man choking on his own vomit to the sounds that grandpa makes when you finally
decide to pull the plug on his respirator. Minton's like a little kid who's contact-miked
himself playing yo-yo with his saliva; he's a baby drooling through his cries; he's
mastered the art of the multiple burp; he's perfected the craft of goobering all over
his finger and then running it over his lips while moaning. I'd hate to see what his
mic looked like after he was done with it. ... Minton ... forces us to ponder the
musical qualities of noises that we'd rather not deal with and for that fact alone,
makes this an important recording.
Minton's most frequent improvising companions are the pianist Veryan Weston and
the drummer Roger Turner, but over the years he has worked with most of the
improvising musicians in the European scene. Unlike some first-generation free
improvisers, he has also become a frequent participant in the so-called EAI
(electroacoustic improvisation) scene.”
Task 1:
Come up in groups anything that pops into your mind that has something to do with
the concept of ‘TWO.
Shotgun
Piano Keys
Journey A - B
Two Parents
Double Vision
Brunch
Duet
Bisexual
Sane / Insane
Twins
Lock and Key
Heaven and Hell
Batterys: Negative and Positive
Scissors
Schizophrenia
Train Tracks
Brain
Taps
Ying and Yang
Adam and Eve
Emo’s vs. Chavs
Together
2Faces
Fake vs. Real.
Remember No session next week but see you again on the 3rd November.