Doing today’s activity that Amanda brought, I felt like I became a child again. I was just enjoying myself and having fun exploring the various combinations of the sounds. Often I forget that one of the most important thing in musicing is to enjoy myself. That pure enjoyment of making sound must be the reason I wanted to do music at the beginning. As I get older, the simple heart I had when I first began to play music has often been forgotten. The classmates in my team as well as the members of other team seemed to be excited doing the game. Our team sang two part at one time by our member’s conducting and the other team mostly sang four parts. I liked the sound of other team’s song of four-part polyphony melodies.
Each member of the Amanda’s team read the solfege cards in different directions in lines.Dr. Gilbert said it was like Stockhausen’s frame notation. I guess I had so much fun doing the activity, because I became curious and excited about unexpected sound and there was no close notation.( It was a close notation in a sense, because it had certain set of notes and rhythms, well..) It was like an experimenting like we did our first improvisation for the first time in our class. I hope I can purify my heart and mind through the activities in the class so that I could play with a child-like mind, without any distraction or any other thoght except for playing music, making the sound. It could be one way to draw out my creativity, I guess.
