Blog 1 - Project Proposal

Initial Proposal

The group session helped me break my work into 2 different sections, ultimately making me chose which area I was mainly interested and wanted to investigate.

2 strands

1- Moments and experiences and live music (drawings of bands, my interpretations of capturing an experience)

2-  Music being difficult to articulate, different interpretations, powerful, the psychology (sound maps and visualisations)

Theoretically

I have found that what particularly interests me is the aura of an experience, a musical experience.

I will need to investigate:

-What makes an experience special?

Personal, intimate, interactive.

Irreplaceable, unique, once, authentic, it is analogue.

Anticipation, satisfaction.

-How does a live performance make people feel?

Absorbed in the sound – not distracted, hooked, transfixed

Multi-sensory experience – tapping feet, responding through movement

Dopamine/euphoria - enjoyment

Practically

I will visually investigate live performances…

Ones I have been to (trying to rejuvenate my memory of them),

A few days after a gig,

The day after the gig,

The evening after the gig,

Reportage whilst at the gig.

I will look into how different materials convey different things, how different experiences of music will look different, what the main exciting things at each gig are and how I can capture them.

!!!!!!!!!!Action Plan!!!!!!!!!!!

Research
- Research/definine/explore definitions of key words: ‘experience’ ‘moment’ ‘aura’ ‘special’ ‘authentic’
‘originality’
- Start to store words I like/ I can use as key words for searching documents/research, eg
experience, experiential, immersive….
- Explore other mediums for research, eg documentaries, film, short films
- Other artists who draw music/gigs?
-READING

Practical / field trips
-Go to gigs (across genres) / draw gigs
-Collect memorabilia?
Post gig:
-do blog post, reflect on how I felt in the experience, why 
- feedback from peer 
what made it ‘good’?
the little things that made it memorable?
what are those questions? And how should I ask them?
anything you would have preferred?
- review drawings from the gig - make an analysis powerpoint on each gig
slide 1: photos?
slide 2: drawings?
slide 3: my review?
slide 4: someone else's review?
(new drawings?)