More on the final project

After meeting last week, Paige sent me a short film that she had made using images of her dancers performing a work inspired by "Autumn Rhythm". I extracted the images from the movie she sent me, and then set out to create a short film in iMovie of my own using these images of her dancers, but also incorporating other images. I chose pictures of bebop musicians who were an inspiration to Pollock at the time that he painted "Autumn Rhythm" (like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie), along with images of Pollock at work creating his unique works. For a score I made a collage in Digital Performer of five different bebop tunes, mixed together in various ways. The piece itself reminds me of Pollock's painting style, in a way. It's chaotic, but still structured. Structured chaos, I guess. Then I sent the jazz collage and movie to the rest of my group. Hopefully the collage will be used in the dramatic part of our presentation. I like this way of collaboration. We've bounced ideas off of each other, then passed around materials to each other that we can use in creating our portion of the project. Not sure what final form our presentation will take. Possibly a PowerPoint presentation. More later.

Thoughts on the final project

Our group has met a few times, and we've decided that we want to come up with an interdisciplinary presentation incorporating elements of music, dance, and drama. We've decided to use the Jackson Pollock painting, "Autumn Rhythm", as the inspiration. I use inspiration fairly loosely, as I'm not entirely sure what form this inspiration is going to take. I've so far been collecting musical works and images from the era when that work was created, the early '50s. Musically, Pollock was inspired quite profoundly by the bebop jazz of that time period, particularly works like Charlie Parker's "Anthropology" and "Ornithology", and collaborations with Dizzy Gillespie like "Koko". Similarly, I've been collecting some recordings by Bud Powell, who was probably the preeminent bebop piano player. There's a lot of material to choose from, but I'm trying to come up with some kind of thread that can be used as the basis for our collaboration. So far, it looks as if we're all going to work on our individual parts separately. Paige will work on a dance inspired by the painting, while Lisa and Courtney will work on a narrative, or dramatic take on the work. Then, we'll bring everything together and integrate it. I'm not sure at the moment what the final form will be. We may want to create some kind of PowerPoint presentation for the project, or we may simply want to link it together as a series of webpages that can be accessed from any one of our individual websites.

no really, here's my first blog entry...

for my NYU Tech Resources class. I'll add something interesting later.

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