Roanne Cox BAPP ACI Blog

Last night we had a cross module zoom meeting led by Sam, with a guest in the form of his song writing partner and producer James Grunwell.  The discussion focused on three main topics: Collaboration, Communication & Language, and Risk Taking. Hearing about Sam and James' experiences as musicians with these three topics was interesting and seemed to draw a lot of parallels with the dance world. Some of the main points that stood out to me across the topics were reflection, being willing to adapt, and being willing to forget your ego for the sake of the bigger picture.  Below I will summarise the notes I took from the three themes and open discussion. COLLABORATION COMPOSITION ::: singer has seed idea and bring it to the room (or the zoom!) each musician works on their individual part parts are brought together to flesh out a structure a process of cutting and pasting shapes and refines the piece the piece changes continuously over time Improvisation - working as a group an...

"MY ADVICE TO ALL INTERVIEWEES IS: SHUT UP AND LISTEN. IT'S HARDER THAN IT SOUNDS." -Errol Morris  Last Friday we had a Module Two call with Sam that centred on using interviews in qualitative research.  This was a really helpful meeting as we were given pointers and advice as well as guidance on approach and conduct, and later on the meeting was opened up for questions and discussion. It was especially interesting listening to Sam's own previous experiences with interviews in music research. I have noted some of they key points raised for future reference and anyone who wants them! APPROACH The interviewee is not answering your questions but bringing ideas and opening the topic Go in with an open mind Subjective Distanciation stepping back to put space between the researcher and topic being a 'data collecting computer' having a sole purpose of gathering data Don't have fixed ideas on what you want from the data and how you will analyse it - go with the fl...