Classy: Bach and Mozart
I’ve been wondering how to apply agile-esque methodologies to things outside of programming, especially since I’m not that great of a programmer. To recap, agile (or what agile means to me) is the mindset that releasing content early and frequently yields better results than finishing and polishing something you release/perform once in a great while. It would seem like this sort of methodology would work with something like the performing arts, since performers are always in a state of flux: one continually gets better. (The discrete nature of traditionally infrequent performances mask that fact, at least to myself.). For instance, last year a visiting violin professor reorganized studio class so everyone would perform at least bimonthly, instead of only three times in a semester. Once you’ve accepted an unmovable release schedule, then one adapts and progress is more apparent through the frequent performances. So that’s my previous experience with an agile-methodology with music performance: where do we go from here?
Well, we do it. Here are some recordings that I made today, about half a month from juries.
To kick things off, here’s mostly chaos. I just overlaid everything on top of each other when I was recording, and here’s a few seconds of the end result.
Now, some Bach: eventually, I’ll overlay the Sarabande and the Double, which works since Bach wrote the two to be harmonically isomorphic (or whatever music theory people say when they mean equivalence).
A second try at the Bach Sarabande: bach-sarabande-27-11-09_2
I just started the Double, so no, I don’t suck that badly. Really: bach-double-27-11-09_1
And have some Mozart:
A quick run-through of the Mozart. Maybe I’ll add some piano overlay sometime. mozart-concerto-4-I-27-11-09_1
Cadenza: mozart-concerto-4-cadenza-27-11-09_1
And a less gimpy run of the Cadenza: mozart-concerto-4-cadenza-27-11-09_2
Have fun: remember, all content is under cc-by-nc-sa. The lead in/out times are there if you want to do your own trimming/noise removal.