Solo Performance workshop 4- sound, colour & emotional intent

When we hear music, we naturally react emotionally. Sometimes this is influenced by how we are already feeling at the time but often a performer can intend to affect us emotionally with the music.

We are all different, but how similar is our colour association to sound?

Try this experiment:

http://theconversation.com/every-song-has-a-color-and-an-emotion-attached-to-it-45537





https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2011/1021/How-Mary-Blair-brought-synesthesia-to-the-big-screen

Listening resources from today:

Sad Lisa - Cat Stevens

Happy - Pharrell Williams

Killing in the Name - Rage Against The Machine

Hurt - Johnny Cash< /div>

Sometimes the emotion may not be immediately obvious - All Alone Now - Maggie Holland

There are a number of devices you can use to evoke an emotion in the listener - instrumentation, tone, tempo, dynamics, lyrics, key...

TASK: This week, please experiment with emotional intent with your track (last week I promise!) and document TWO versions, each with different emotional intent. Please upload by next Monday.

After half term, you will be performing your track to the rest of your group, demonstrating everything that you have learned and how you have applied it appropriately to your track. We will film these and they will be your end point so that you can compare your song with where it started.