5. Rehearsals

Today we started to record three versions of music pieces.

1. version

A hard music piece played by all of them together.
They rehearsed the piece for a week.
Mareike played the cachon, Mirjam the piano and Sarah the chello.
They got the task to start the piece anew as soon as one of them makes a mistake.
This is the result:

http://lisaoettinghaus.neptune.com/?selectedalbum=lisaoettinghaus421051



I think the music piece is not working so well. I think it´s quite hard to procure honest failure with a recorded version. When I was listining to it I couldn´t feel the hard try and the passion behind the music. I think it would work better and more honest if you actually see the musicans. Cause otherwise you can´t tell if they just didn´t practise enought.

2. version

The turkish march played by Mirjam on the piano.
She rehershed the piece a lot when she started playing the piano when she was younger.
She played the piece without notes. The idea behind that was, that she wanted to be able to play it without. So she had a passion behind that. She really wanted it.
She didn´t got any time to practise before the redording.
She also got the task to start anew when there was a mistake.
This is the result:

http://lisaoettinghaus.neptune.com?selectedalbum=lisaoettinghaus421054

I think that version works. The failing is very obvious.
I allready reviewed that version in my last blog. (see 4th rehershals)


3. version

I asked everybody to improvise on their instrument.
I wanted each of them to do that on his own, alone in a room. I wanted to create an intimate moment where mistakes don´t have so much power, since they are happening in the unseen.
Improvising is a very initimate moment since every note happens out of a feeling. Mistakes are allowed, cause we allow them to ourselves.
Therefore we have to differ between practising by yourself and improvising for yourself with a certain passion or confidence behind it.
Since that was a very personal moment not everybody wanted to share it.
Mareike was open to record it.
This is what came out of it:

http://lisaoettinghaus.neptune.com?selectedalbum=lisaoettinghaus421106

I like this version a lot cause it is a very intimate moment and it communicates through the open space for failure.


An Idea I got out of our recording session was, to use the third version as a come out kind of way
Means that I think the music piece is revealing a persons failure in a passionated thing.
And I just had the picture of a person coming into the room, putting on the music piece or even playing it live and than starts to tell the audience about the moment of failing in it.
It´ll be a direct communication to the audience.
It´s like an outing or even an evaluation of their failure.

I like that idea cause it brings an honesty and a raise of the topic of failure and the own handling of it, to it.
What would happen if each of them would present their moment of failure.
To not "show of " or produce that moment I´d like to have it played recorded not live.
What if they expose that moment. If they would explain their moment of failure, feelings, hates and likes.
I think I would like the moment of talking about the moment on stage. I think it can be really strong.
I like the idea of giving a statement or evidence on a failure moment.
Cause for me failure can be treated like a crime, by myself and also by others, so why not make a statement on it.

For the next rehearsals I like to start working with the first and the second version for the combination and the third version would be more for another part in the piece. I call it " statments of failure part".