Planing Out Our Performace

We then decided that we were only going to keep the first section of our original / first drawing (seen on blog post 'Group Meeting') as it  had a variety of sounds which we had practiced quite a few times at this stage, and then add a beginning and an end to it. However this was easier said than done and we seemed to sit around and talk about it for a long time rather than just going ahead and writing something down.

Interpretive Dance?

So Maddy decided to waken us all up with come active / physical activities or exercises to get our juices flowing and...somehow we ended up doing some interpretive dance which was incredibly  funny and reminded me of Jim Green one of the artist I found who makes sound art through humour.

Jamming Session #1 

After feeling very awake and energised we then went on to just having a jam, which we recorded so if there was something that we thought sounded really cool, we could listen back to it and remake that sound. And thats exactly what we ended up doing, at 1:30 in this next video we decided that we really liked the beat that was created between Maddy, Jenny and I and so have added that to our performance.

Art lab rehearsal jamming #1

I almost feel that the sound recording sounds better than this video, this my be because this device was right next to us so didn't pick up as much of the echoing but it may also be the fact that there is no visual distraction.

where-it-all-starts

Jamming Session #2
Our last jamming performance we placing a sound recording device (ne of our phones) in the middle of the room and slowly moved toward it in the centre of the room. The idea behind doing this was to get us used to the idea that we would be on our feet for the final performance possible having to walk around the stage, also it was an alternative for not having the use of a microphone to practice with, so we were thinking about how the sounds created would sound far away and then getting louder as we moved closer in.

Noise Art Experiment - walking to the sound recorder

I almost feel that the sound recording sounds better than this video, this my be because this device was right next to us so didn't pick up as much of the echoing but it may also be the fact that there is no visual distraction.

4corners-moving-in

When we got to the point of needing to stop and start drawing our performance down on paper we went back to the concept of Mihimihi and based what we were going to draw on the ideas that:
-When you meet someone for the first time the conversation is quite random but after some getting to know each other you start to familiar yourself with them and a beat / rhythm picks up.

The left shows our composition coming together with our initial composition joined in the centre

Stage Layout

We also talked about about the layout of our performance and how we would want our audience to be seated. We decided to use the movable wall so Anna would be able to effectually incorporate it in her part of the performance with myself to the right of her and Maddy and Jenny to the left near the microphones.

Distractions

As well as this we also decided on what we would wear as we thought this would help us come together as a group visually. Everyone will be wearing black as it was an easy colour that everyone had enough of in there wardrobes, the reasoning for this is because I thought it would make it less distracting, for us to be wearing solid colour rather than being all over the place with many. Therefore making the focus on our noise-makers and the sounds they will make.

Photos of our last practice performance together:

This is where the final few touches were made to our performance and we really became focused into what we were doing and needed to be doing for the big day. And I really feel as though we have come together as one in the hope that our Mihimihi is strong and how we want our story to be told.