Forum Week 3

In this forum class we participated in a experimental music exercise. After receiving a speaking part at the beginning of the lesson i was beginning to question what sort of sounds would be made during this lesson. With the involvement of most music technology students playing a variety of percussion, tonal and vocal parts. I was was amazed at how the piece moved through many highs and lows and ups and downs without a musical score, as such, to follow. Although this was interesting at first, i must admit that it became a little tedious after the first fifteen minutes and found that the ideas presented in the first fifteen minutes were found in the last half an hour. The aim of this forum was to expand our understanding of what music is and to question the, and i say this loosely, "definition" and our understanding of what music is.

I was surprised about the amount of concentration required to do the exercise. Thinking about the time, what you were going to do and how u were going to do it was more difficult than originally thought.

"What is noise" and "what is music" is an opinion and a personal choice. It could be argued that life noises follow a similar rhythm that music follows. Music follows a structure of sorts and so does life. Think about a car, you turn the key, u start the motor, the pistons move up and down to drive the wheels etc..... Is this not a structure or a conformity like a music follows.

My opinion of music has changed significantly after beginning uni and i beleive that the more I study music it will continue to change.