So I’ve made a draft of what the score for the second piece might be. Tomorrow we’ll discuss final details to complete the piece in order to move on to recording and finalizing scoring. I think it’s still possible to introduce some “organized randomness” to the piece, even if it brings an element of comedy. It should be enjoyable.
The Dice idea was brought up by Simon, and it evolved during group talks to being an element of surprise to involve the audience in our piece. It hasn’t formally been included in our piece, but it’s still very much alive. The way it works is before the piece, we have someone from the audience roll the dice, and depending on the results, the piece would slightly change. To achieve this without complete chaos we decided to have an improvisational section in which the members of the group would improvise making physical sounds with objects or our voices as opposed to with the computers while a background steadily plays. The dice will determine one of six possible sounds that the group would have to improvise with.
We came un with 6 ideas for sounds including, rattling keys, booing, hissing, scrunching paper, laughing, and counting out loud. The idea of the score was to simply turn in a Die cube with specifications, but that would have made the rest of what was going on difficult to show. So I came up with the following draft of a score that can show what the piece might look like on paper. After de Dice section there would be some things going on for the ending but since I am not too clear yet on the times, I left as a work in progress.
