This week, we explored non-standard musical notation through visual scores. Modern music notation can only be read by those who are trained to read it, so we decided to look at other ways to write down music that could be interpreted by anyone. In groups of 2, 3 and 4, the students created visual scores with a series of colored lines. The height of the line on the paper determined its pitch (higher = irising pitch, lower = dropping pitch) while the thickness determined its volume (thin = soft, thick = loud). After creating the scores and choosing sounds to represent the different lines, each group performed their visual score.
On Thursday we did an activity called "Lost at Sea." With a list of 14 items, we broke into three large groups with the goal of ranking these 14 items in order of greatest importance to least importance. Then, using a specific team color, each group made these 14 objects and placed them around the room. This allowed us to see each team's ranks just by looking at the colors and objects. The list of 14 was compiled and ranked by survival experts - some of the answers were very different than we had expected!
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