Advanced Projects in Musicmaking
Kitty Brazelton
S06
This is a seminar for advanced music students to workshop individual artistic projects in a small group setting, while learning to apply analytical tools to the practice of musicmaking. Projects must be predominantly musical, inclusive of live performance, open to change through feedback and criticism, and presented live in draft form by midterm; in final form by the end of the term (two performances minimum). Projects may be composed or improvised, inclusive of non-music media, instrumental, vocal, or electronic/partially prerecorded, provided live performance component is integral. In addition to the live performance expectation described above, students will be expected to complete short-term group-assigned compositional, improvisational, research, writing, or recording projects designed to help seminar participants reflect on and further develop their long-term projects. All students are required to attend and show work regularly at Music Workshop.