06/06/10

It has been the most beautifully sunny week. However, we have spent the majority of it down in the windowless bowels of college, rehearsing for the Composition class performance on Friday. Having this time all working together so intensely for long periods of time has made me realise just what we can achieve when we have the motivation and most importantly time. I have no doubt that given the time in the rehearsal rooms that we’ve had this week that we would be able to put together the performances for group work that usually takes us half a semester to put together. It was really enjoyable to play on a variety of different tracks as well. Liam’s compostion ’Music For An Animated Short’ was great fun to play and really effective, and it was great to get that contrast with pieces like Daryl’s which was quite reggae influenced and Mark’s that was very swing-based. I ended up singing on my own piece which was one of the most nerve-wracking things I have done in my whole time in college. I have sang and played on-stage before but it has always felt like playing a part. We are invariably dressed up and working to a brief. It feels very different to be singing your own song on such a big stage as yourself. The gig went well I think and was really fun to do, the adrenelin come-down afterwards was not so much fun!

The course work is coming together as well. DAW is nearly finished, and I hope I have nailed Adorno, cantankerous old communist that he was. It is just really a case of waiting to see if I’ve passed everything.