The Tempest by Robert W Smith

And Today we listened to a piece of music that we are going to use in the beginning of our performance for the storm. It was called "The Tempest" by Robert W Smith. After listening to it, we had to write one word/phrase or even draw a picture of how we felt or what we thought about the piece of music. 

For me, this piece of music made me very tense because even though I liked it, it was also quite chaotic and you didn't know when then bangs were going to happen. There's a part of the song where it sounds quite magical and sweet and it reminds me of fairies flying around. 

I think this piece of music is fantastic for the storm, because like I said, it's quite chaotic and it has calm moments, which is what a storm is like. Unpredictable. 

We then had to create a rain ritual-(Antonin Araud technique). We were separated into groups and we had to create this in 10 minutes. In my group we decided to have the eye of the storm in the middle of the rest of us circling around the three people. While the eye of the storm was staying calm and humming and whistling, the rest of us were using different levels and making different noise. We did this because we wanted it to be unpredictable and chaotic. At the end of the ritual we all throw ourselves to the floor and I had to let out a loud scream for the end of the storm. 

In lesson I felt like I was very focussed and determined to do the work, however, when we were put into groups mine was incredibly unsure on what and how to start the piece. We tried out a few things, and came up with it through improvisation. I feel that even though that's a great way to come up with work, maybe we could have organised it better and I think for next time I should speak up and share my ideas more.