the week before we were asked to either bring in something that brings us joy or a piece of music that brings us joy. following on from this, we were asked to get into pairs and make a small circle between ourselves using the items that bring us joy; if it we didn't bring in an item and found a song instead, we used our headphones to create the circle. when our partner was in the circle we were requested to watch and listen to the song or to why the item brings the person joy. The partner I was with - Gabriel, was playing the song 3005 by Childish Gambino, he said the song brings him joy because it gets him in the mood to dance and because he knows the song so well every time it is played, even in a public space he always raps to it, because I am familiar with the song when he first started playing it I began to smile and rapped along with it as well, this is significant because it made us feel connected and more comfortable with ourselves because we know the song. my song was Location by Khalid, the reason why this song brings me joy is because it creates a relaxing atmosphere and the artist has a very unique beautiful voice. the exercise was very unusual but effective because it brought you out of your comfort zone and knowing someone else's song of happiness made me happy, and somehow created a connection because a smile or the emotion happiness is something valuable and nice.
the following exercise was interesting because we were instructed to give our partner actions to do but first with words, then sounds and finally through using our mind. this exercise was to work on our listening skills and making us bond. I found this a really fun exercise to do especially when not using words because it was interesting to see my partners response to sounds/ when using our mind to communicate it made me realise that people will not always have the same reaction to things as you would and it also awakened me because it's all about patience and not everything should be rushed.
to end that session we did a big improvisation including the whole class, everyone was instructed to use their object/song that brings them joy. the improvisation was fun to be part of because it was spontaneous, but there were moments were it became a bit messy and too much was going on, our teacher, Stuart asked some people to leave the circle and allow the improvisation circle to breathe before they were ready to go back in.
Things I enjoyed in the improvisation:
-Nansi's counting
- Benji, Jimmy and Joe's singing
- biscuits and party rings
- Jake riding on his bike around the room
- Elijah jumping up to fake love
- Tribal dancing and singing as a whole class
- Joe's harmonica
- Fairy lights
I found this exercise intriguing because the circle held a lot of emotions and majority were joyful, people were bouncing off each others mood and we were working hard together, there were no points where we were left unsure of what to do, everyone was committed and were open to ideas and had spontaneous ideas which we all worked around to make it look good. there were a lot of valuable bits and those bits are the things we will include in our final piece.
Lastly, we watched two videos about how music affects the brain ' This is your brain on music' by Life Noggin and another which I didn't catch the name of but was similar to the first.
- love, sex, drugs + music release the same chemicals
- motion & movement = emotion & feelings
- music changes your mood
- playing instruments make you smarter
- music affects how we see the world
at the end of the day we devised a physical theatre sequence that would be included in our final piece we used the song Surfing in the USA by the Beach Boys, after this was created we were broken down into small groups and we were all given a stimulus that we had to use to create scene on how music affects our mind. my group and I hadn't thought of any ideas this session. the session as a whole was successful and easy going because we managed to devise the first bit of our show and also learn a lot about each other and learn more about our brains.
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