F. was struggling with finishing a track, so I thought about leading this exercise in terms of what makes a musical composition “finished” or not. Abstraction I was thinking about this problem as the challenge of adding form to the formless, which is something that I have had to do in other modalities:
Patternmaking in cordswaining When we outlined both feet to make the sole, then took the average of the two feet (mirrored) to make the pattern Drawing the curve of our upper as we visualized it, but going back and using the bezier curve for the final shape Choreography When developing choreo, I might first move to the music in a way that inspires me, but then I need to simplify those moves in order to disseminate it to others. This might strip some nuance out of the movement, but allows others (and myself) a way to repeat it e.g. the instructions “left arm moves forward, draw 180 arc with your hips, dévelopée right leg” leaves out much detail, but is more concise than, the embodied action(s) Translation/detranslation (telephone signal processing/transmission) The idea I’m trying to get across: even though the idea you have might be highly complex, you need to simplify it in order for it to be transmissible to others (or sometimes, just to yourself at a later date)
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