Inventing Abstraction PPT

Minecraft Design

This is my design on Minecraft. The building that I created is a hotel with a swimming pool

Abstract Composition PPT

Inventing Abstract Workshop

Acrylic Painting

For this task, I had to use Acrylic paint to create an abstract composition while playing and listening to Arnold Schoenberg 'Six Short Pieces of Piano' in the background. It was quite hard because I couldn't focus on the mood of the song. The challenge of this task is that we had to paint over paint. I couldn't do that properly. It was quite hard. I kept painting on the paper and I also had to make sure that the brush mark is invisible. 

For this composition I've used dark and gloomy colour so that it represent the mood of this song. I've used green, blue, yellow and black. I also put yellow because it kind of shows a little bit of the happiness of the song. 

Paper Sculpture

For this task, I had to create a Paper Sculpture while Luicana Berio's Linea playing in the background. I find this the hardest task because I faced many challenges. 

This music composition was kind of creepy and I also felt the spooky feeling. I barely used any colour for this abstract composition. All I did was cut the edges and fold it so it pops out when you look it from the side. It is unfinished because I only had 7 minutes to complete and I think 7 minutes isn't enough. The other challenge that I faced was following the beat. That was also really hard. 

Watercolor Painting 

This task is watercolor painting. I find this the easiest task because it is a water colour painting and following the beat for this abstract composition was also kind of easy. I interpreted the music composition called Dream by John Cage. 

The feeling of the music was kind of sad and it is also slow. As you can see I've used bright colors but that doesn't represent anything. The structures of the lines represent the feeling of the music. I've used wavy lines to represent the sad and slow feeling. 

During this task, I kind of felt that I was off beat for few minutes.

Printing 

This task is called printing. I interpreted the music called The Rites of Spring by Stravinsky. This was the fun task out of all because all we did was printing and it was really fun. The challenge that I faced was that I couldn't follow the beat. All I did was printing on the paper. 

Reflection

Scary story to tell in the dark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF7iiK3ZY0s

Radioplay video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxL4V-D0Uzg&feature=youtu.be

Radio Plays History

Radio Plays

MYP: Radioplays

Key Concept: Communication & Creativity

Related Concepts: Composition & Genre

Global Contexts: Personal and Cultural

Statement of Inquiry: The radio is a powerful tools that grew out of a need for communication and entertainment in the past, but is equally as valid today.

Inquiry Questions: What elements combine to create an effective radio play?

Peer Assessment on PSA Video

Angelo, Nur, Laith, Ishita, Joshita - Substantial (6). 

The video tells us about sexual harrassment. It is related to the topic. The statistics and tagline is included in the video. 

Mazen, Tanya, Nivedya, Michael , Sumayya - Adaquate (4)

The video tells us about domestic abuse which is related to the topic. The video is working, but it is not clear. You can't hear them talking. There is also tagline and and statistics.

Ridha, Sara, Irwan, Vinesh, Maxime and Sudu - Limited (2) 

The video is about bullying, but half of the video is missing. The important part. There are lots of statistics, but there is no references. 

Sexual Harassment Video

3 Music Videos

Behind the Wall - Tracy Chapman

This song is about what she experienced. She heard that something happened to her neighbour and quickly call the police, but they didn't do anything. 

In the video, she took her guitar with her to the stage but didn't play the guitar. It's probably because she wanted to make the audience listen to the lyrics and understand them 

Silent all these years - 

The mother was the abuser.

She has a problem but she couldn't tell anyone. 

She is pretending that she is something else. 

She wants to leave but she couldn't go anywhere. 

Pearl Jam - Jeremy

A boy was bullied in school and was ignored by his mom

video

What is conflict?

Conflict is a disagreement between people. It is an active disagreement. They start a conflict because of their opinions towards something. Opposing opinions. Conflict involves threat to something like needs, interests etc. 

Types of conflict:

1. Interpersonal conflict: It is between to individuals

2. Intrapersonal conflict: It occurs within an individual

3. Intragroup conflict: It happens among individuals within a team

4. Intergroup conflict: It happens among different teams within an organization

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/conflict

https://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/onlinetraining/resolution/aboutwhatisit.htm

http://www.typesofconflict.org

Drama

MYP: Conflict

Key Concept: Perspective

Related Concepts: Expression and Narrative

Global Contexts: Fairness and development

Statement of Inquiry: We can understand how conflicts arise at hone, school and in society through the field of drama.

Inquiry Questions: Can controversy be explored through drama to represent different perspectives?

Reflection of Second Composition

When we finished our composition, we asked miss to listen to our composed song. She said that there was another method involved which is minimalism. Tanya and I were quite surprised though. Miss was satisfied with our music and we were very happy. We are the only group who used all the methods. So our 2nd composition involved Cipher and Minimalism. We listened to our composition again and did some research about minimalism.

Video of 2nd Composition

This is our YouTube link. We couldn't upload the video because the file is too big.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9samLb_I3DU&feature=youtu.be

2nd Composition

I've decided to work with the same partner, Tanya,  because we worked well together and we make good compositions together. We both decided to interpret this artwork. It is because Miss kind of interpret this artwork for us. So, it will be easy for us to make our 2nd composition.

We chose to do new a method of composing our own music which is Cipher. We decided to do something new so we could learn new method instead of just learning one method. It may help us in future - probably. What we did is we gave each colour a cipher including the background. 

This is the picture of the notes used. 

 

After we finished figuring out the cipher for each colour, we edit it on mixcraft. We combine all ciphers together and organize it on mixcraft. It was kind of hard because there are so many things to edit since there are lots of ciphers for our second composition. We organized the ciphers according to the artwork we chose. We start our music with the yellow cipher which is the left bottom corner on the artwork and we add everything in order.

We chose G#, E, E and F# for background because it is green colour and G represents g in green. E represents e in green. I repeat E because there are two e's in green. A, C, E, C and D for yellow because A represents Y if you turn it upside down and add a single line under it. C represents l in yellow. Just straighten the line, then it could be an l since C uses just 1 line. E represents e and D represents o in yellow. G, B, D, A and B for dark green because G represents g in green. B represents r because it kind of look the same if you remove a line in B. D represents d for dark and A represents a in the word dark. G, C, B and E for red because G and C sounded good together. Since B represents r for dark green, we decided to do the same thing for red. So B represents r. E because there is an E in red. B, E, D for Dark blue because B and E is the first and last letter in blue. D id for dark. B, E and D is the notes that we used for dark blue, but we actually repeat the notes to make it sound good. For dark brown it is D, B, C and A because D is for dark so as letter A. B is for brown and C represents O in brown. If you attach the end of the C together, it will end up as an O. There is actually no specific reason light brown. Playing those notes together just sounded nice and we just chose it as light brown. Light Green is E, F, G and A because G stands for green and E is used in green. For the other notes, there is no specific reason. That is all.

This is how we organize our cipher. First we split the picture into several pieces. We start it with the first piece. On the first piece, there is yellow, dark green, dark brown, dark blue and red. So we add each of the ciphers of the colours that were mentioned on mixcraft. But before that, we add the background cipher onto mixcraft then the colours. On the second piece, there is red, yellow, dark brown, light green and grey. On the third piece there is red, dark green, yellow, dark blue and light brown. on the forth piece there is dark brown, light brown, yellow, light green, dark blue and red. On the last piece there is light green, dark blue and light brown, After we organize them on mixcraft we edit all the notes whether it is a high or a low note and the pace of each notes, whether it is a long or a short note.

Our Composition on Mixcraft

The first, second and third track is the background, forth is yellow, fifth is dark green, sixth is dark brown, seventh is red, eight is dark blue, ninth is light brown and the last track is light green. It looks kind of messed up, but when you listen to it you'll find it awesome. This actually took a long time to edit.

My Own Piece

We decided to use Serialism because it is very interesting even though it is hard to play. Serialism which is also known as the 12-note-rows gives a lot of choice of music. Compare to other techniques, this technique use more notes. There are many ways to put them and there are many notes which makes it good because it gives us cool music.

When the music is going slow in the beginning, that represent the circles. The high notes in the music represent the long straight lines. On the picture, there is a part of it that looked like a piano. We chose a keyboard to make our music. The wavy lines signify when the music goes in a very abstract way and when long and short notes are played together. We overlapped our music because the picture itself is overlapping with all kinds of shapes and lines. We used strings to edit the music because strings give an effect of a high note and if you see in the picture, the picture only shows high notes because there are very long, thin lines. Most of our music are strings. The line under the shapes of the piano signifies our last note because as the line in the picture is long , so as our last note is long.

Our own Serialism

We created our own piece by using a keyboard. Later on, we were thinking about to put them in mixcraft and edit them whether it will be a long note or a short note. We thought that we will just stick to keyboard as our instrument, but we might overlap some notes together. We will try to match it with our chosen Kandinsky's art. Tanya created the notes on Prime and Retrograde row. I created the notes on Inverse and Inverse Retrograde row. It was kind of hard to do the Inverse row, but it will be easy to do the Inverse Retrograde once you've found the notes for Inverse. I had to do a little bit of Math while doing the Inverse notes.

This is what we did so far and we played these notes on the keyboard as well.

Prime: C G A E G# B F D C# D# F A#

Retrograde: A# F D# C# D F# B G# E A G C

Inverse: C F D#G# E C# F# A# D B AC

Inverse Retrograde: G A B D A# F# C# E G# D# F C

It seems that Serialism is very hard, but at least we achieved on making notes for each row. Our next goal is to try to put them all together in mixcraft and make it sounds good. We will try to combine the piece that we created with one of the Kandinsky's art that we have chosen. Since Tanya will not be in school for this week, I will be doing all the work then.