Workshop with young people from All Sorts youth group, Stroud, exploring different materials with a camera loosely based on the theme of The Wind.
Commissioned by Theatre Gloucestershire for Battle For The Winds.
www.battleforthewinds.com
Impressions from a day of workshops in the Forest of Dean
With musical underscore by Simon McCorry
Film direction by William Simpson
Hip Hop Indie groove based nursery rhyme “London Bridge is Falling Down” available at
This one is for the London 2012 Olympics
choreography – Marie-Louise Flexen
composition- Pete Rosser
film Simon – McCorry
Words by young people in Gloucestershire for Battle For The Winds – a Cultural Olympiad project celebrating sailing events Weymouth, Dorset July 2012.
The Wind Gatherers
We are the gatherers of wind.
We are the raiders of the air.
We are the troopers of storms.
We are the ones who catch the breeze.
Standing on the top of May Hill,
leaning into the wind,
looking out across the Severn.
Breathing in the fresh summer air,
leaning into the wind,
braced against the storm.
We are the gatherers of wind.
We are the raiders of the air.
We are the troopers of storms.
We are the ones who catch the breeze.
Invisible, sly, bitter and battered,
summoning the wind,
banishing and vanishing.
Blow me up, blow me down.
Fill your lungs.
Whistle for the wind.
We are the gatherers of wind.
We are the raiders of the air.
We are the troopers of storms.
We are the ones who catch the breeze.
commissioned for the Gloucestershire episode of Battle For The Winds
battleforthewinds.com
funded by Theatre Gloucestershire
I’ve been working on this for over a year now, you can find a comprehensive selection of music, sound effects and sound design beds.
Beautiful film made with Brays Special School in Birmingham. Story developed by Carol Florence Graham
Three voice harmony in one region – don’t analyze harmony too closely! Sometimes these lines move together sometimes independently.
When the score edit window is opened
You will notice that with no overlap checked some notes are missing or their lengths have been shortened. Uncheck no overlap and the score window will look like this
This is still not satisfactory as the score editor adds tied notes to the parts or ‘voices’ that are not moving
One way to remedy this is to create a new staff style that accomodates 3 voices.
First choose the staff style closest to the on you want to work with. In the top left hand corner under the name of the region there will be a drop down menu next to the word Style, if this box is hidden click on the little triangle next to the region name. After choosing the appropiate staff style open the drop down menu a second and choose ****DUPLICATE!****. You will selected Staff Style change to something like “staffstyle*copied”.
In the score window go to the Layout menu choose Staff Styles… this opens the Staff Styles window (you can also double click on the Staff Style name).
Here are all the settings to change the look of the staff style, there will be a list of staffs (for multi staff stles such as piano) and a sublist of voices for each staff.
To create a new voice go to the New menu and select Insert Voice. For multi staff styles it is easier to select the pencil tool and click in the Voice columns (columns headed by Rest to Color) under the staff you want the voice to appear.
For each new voice you can select how you want it to appear. In the example below I’ve chosen the rests for each voice to be hidden and the top voice to have it’s note tails pointing upwards.
Also note in the Assign – Split column a note value (default C3) has appeared. Notes above this value belong to the voice above, notes below this value belong to the voice below. I’ve selected splits so that the our original three lines are independent
The score window for this region should now look like this
