(Shorter) music games in the hut

Summary:

Music game meetings in Warsaw are now shorter and are paired with other musical events. This thread will gather comments on meetings that are in this new formula.

(Shorter) music games in the hut

odolany 24 Feb 2019 21:27

2019-02-24

There were two games we didn't try before.
One was operating on only "high-low" couples of sounds, and played pattern showed who's to play next. The game will be developed, a few more variants to try out, and the best version will be added to the library asap. ;)

Another one was Jennie Gottschalk's "Imagined seconds" as published in vol 9 of Synzine magazine. Although translated more as a series of "solo pieces" rather than just "sounds to play". Other parts were conform with defined variations (we didn't set maximum time - 99 seconds in basic version of the score - although it most often was not exceeded anyway). The game was discussed and maybe some "house rules" will be needed, but I guess it will stay as the part of the repertoire, because it happily is: for every skill, for any set of instruments and scales fine with different numbers of players. And as a series of solo music it adds variety compared to most of other games.

Here is a detailed discussion. http://musicgames.wikidot.com/forum/t-10425377/imagined-seconds-discussion

And here is a playlist for recordings (there won't be many). https://soundcloud.com/odolany/sets/february-game-meeting-ii

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Re: (Shorter) music games in the hut

odolany 31 Mar 2019 17:52

2019-03-10

This time I'll not get into detail, but the meeting was quite difficult for me as there were so many different approaches to what games are and what music is… ;)
But from march meetings I'll add recordings https://soundcloud.com/odolany/sets/march-meetings
notrightmusic's Room Score was played with added mechanics: starting point was established and one person didn't watch the Conductor and was to guess on what place in the room the piece was ended.

Re: (Shorter) music games in the hut

odolany 27 May 2019 11:51

2019-04-28 2019-05-26
Two meetings were poorly attended.
Recordings of games from the hut that are available (usually those that are fully played through without too much laughing ;) ) are now all up: https://soundcloud.com/odolany/sets

Re: (Shorter) music games in the hut

odolany 01 Jul 2019 23:05

2019-06-30
Last meeting before the summer holiday break was quite fine. Lots of thoughtful discussion about played games among which some rare: Dixit for duets, Orbit II (Kalani Das's game), Imagined seconds (in it's discussion thread soon with a recording), Rules cumulation (starting with total "free", everyone gradually adds a rule and all of them apply - this idea needs help), Noodle game (awaiting a good end condition now), Into the Labirynth for two competing teams of "adventurers".

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Re: (Shorter) music games in the hut

odolany 26 Nov 2019 21:06

2019-11-24
Some meetings went unnoted, but at the last one we tried two things for a first time:

Cornelius Cardew's Schooltime Special (1968) - you can check it out here: http://a4-room.com/schooltime-special/
The instruction is easy to follow, good entry to experimental classics. But imo, casually this would work better for large ensemble, 10+, and with people much into the historical aspect of music games.

Also we tried new cards that have a push-your-luck music-themed matching component and arrows that generate the direction of improvised melody. This was played to a minimalistic context and the musical result was starting to be interesting. But it had many flaws: components too small and hard to handle, flow of the game was bad, push-your-luck unbalanced and the setup required too much table space. I hope next version will be fine to describe here though.