Description across Discipline

This semester's work with the a Molly and Daphna have been incredibly insightful in their worlds. It's very easy to take what they do for granted in their respective art forms especially when I am unfamiliar with their preparation processes. 

For one thing, we all knew the Molly's dancing would require much more energy but we didn't realize how much time was needed for her to prepare her body for movement so she'd be able to safely participate in and contribute to rehearsals. She has incredible stamina and Daphna and I are always really appreciative of all of the extra physical energy she needs to exert in our rehearsals.

On the tech and composition side of things, Daphna has a clear idea of what is possible with technology as it relates to our specific project and talks on her philosophy of composition ties in deeply with her skills as an improviser. In many ways, she describes composition as improvisation that is slowed down, meticulously refined and then notated. This process has helped generate materials in which we continue to refine the choreographed and musically notated material in our project.

Molly has, on several occasions, expressed tremendous excitement when she hears new things from the violin and saxophone that she hasn't heard before. The recording process for sound effects from the saxophone was also eye-opening to those who hadn't heard some of the extended techniques (multiphonics, harmonics scans, multiple tonguing etc) employed in Jeffrey's improvisations.