This extra post is to provide a forum for discussion of Dale’s suggestion that we open our sessions with Vocal Sequence work, and find further structure for sharing and creating work.
You can (and should) download the Vocal Sequence document on the Assignments page.
Discuss:
- questions you have about the Vocal Sequence and its implementation
- ideas for a variety of structures for rest the session; there is no reason to think we need only one way to proceed after our warmup.
Sorry to drop the ball on a full demonstration. Just wasn’t primed to “take the journey.” Using a “quick pass” to get warmed up is a great idea. Everyone will relax and just be themselves, then Vocal Sequence exploration just becomes an extension with everyone engaged in one way or another by either watching or participating.
Even though I made a point to say it’s just an activity, a thing to do, I let myself be stifled by my expectations. The imagination gets involved pretty quickly, obviously, so sometimes it’s very hard to stay with the idea of it all just being “a thing to do.” But it is. Maybe I was uncertain about revealing how much of it is non-sensical, meaning-less. I worry that as a way of working it’s something of an acquired taste and may not appeal to everyone. It’s often very confusing to know what to do with the results. Also, when you do it regularly, you can wrap yourself in a cocoon of not caring what watchers are thinking. Everyone you are working with “knows” what’s up and relaxes. I have been away from it, so it loomed like a trip up Everest.
I could get even more confessional over my personal concerns, but I’m hoping I can find the guts to use some of them as an unspoken source of creative tension. Post some material, Dale, so I can do something productive and move past regret.
Worry, worry, worry. Stop it.
We’re putting ourselves in a room of creative people, all of whom have worked on creating something major and who completely understand how many dead ends, how much useless material, how much total crap is produced during the process. It’s inevitable. Relax. I certainly do/am.
And if anyone joins us who does not understand that, then this is where they learn it.
::insert hoary story about pottery teacher and his students here::
I think part of the end of every work session needs to be the “Moments” list: those things that struck people in some way.
Does being tackled count as being “struck?”
I think the preferred term is “assaulted.”