Feedback proforma (17th May)

Year 2

10 May 2011 feedback proforma

STUDENT PEER FEEDBACK

For use by students to supply feedback to their own group members

• You should have received a report from the other members of your group by 10 May. If not, please ask them for it!
• Please study your group members’ documents and fill in one of these forms for each, then return it to them, copying in your tutor, on or before 17 May.

FEEDBACK TO (STUDENT): Rachel Dunscombe FEEDBACK FROM (STUDENT): Jonas Altman

IN YOUR OWN WORDS, PLEASE PROVIDE COMMENTS THAT YOU THINK WILL CRITICALLY SUPPORT YOUR COLLEAGUE’S PROJECT.  Quick comment on your question. Not a big fan of the word ‘said music’.  It sounds like a law contract like aforementioned blah blah.  The question also presumes when you say ‘other senses’ that it is the sense of sound that is typical.  I think you need to say it – if I were deaf I would have music represented to me through touch / vibrations.  Finally from our conversation down in the café or some time ago – Why exactly is it necessary to enhance electronic music, ie. What’s wrong with it, and the way we experience it now?  Looking to find out why there is a gab or a need to enhance it (if its external great, if its you personally that wants to then tell us why?) I know I still have problems with that too – easier said than done. If you are going to push this you should start looking at the leaders the innovators in the field Those guys who did the solar / lunar music, quincy jones, whoever – track them down and find out. Looks like you already know that and put it down.

IN YOUR ESTIMATION- WHAT ARE THE STRENGTHS OF THE PROJECT? WHERE ARE THE GAPS IN, OR WHAT COULD BE THE THREATS TO, THE PROJECT AT THIS STAGE? (no more than 3 of each, please)

Strengths: You have no lack of passion, drive, and interest in this area.  There is relevancy with regards to how people are consuming music (spotify, in gigabytes versus 12 inch vinyl tracks) and thus how music makes one feel correlates to where, with whom, recorded or live,  in what format the music is being projected.  So you have a cleared path now You have done the leg work in both getting to grips with this new area, mapping out who’s who in the electronic music scene. So building on this with your new direction could be good. Gaps / threats: “Feeling Music” conjures up a lot of things to me. There is nostalgia, emotions, release, cathartic use, etc… although it may be a focus for you now it is still quite an open ended concept I think.  We spoke about drugs being an enhancement amongst other things and it looks like you have been looking at damage to the ears through prolonged and loud music.  Point simply is to dig deeper into exactly what you are meaning by Feeling Music, as Liz said define the terms so we know (and you) You’ve already said it and you are right. You need to get out there and get rocking with the respondents and collaborators.  I have not had trouble doing this and I still have a very brad and ‘save the world’ type question.  However each time someone asks me about the project or I meet with someone new it’s a new opportunity for me to express / contextualise / give my best elevator pitch about what it is I am doing, why, etc  ( I stole this one from my brother so need to give him credit) – If you think about it like that then in some ways its simply what’s the worse that could happen?