Music for a play....

Description:

My production task for the one act play is music and sound effects. This week I had to do a ppp for this.

Analysis:

The sound and music in a play needs to be coherent with it. You cannot put a track because it sounds good, or choose a certain sound effect because it’s cool. The music and sound has to have coherence with the concept of the play. At the beginning I really didn’t understand how music could follow a concept, but then I understand that different sounds will have different effects, different meanings. The rhythm should also transmit different sensations, and the instruments used also. So then I thought for example in the connections each sound had with the play, and if it didn’t then I looked for something more connected with the play. So then the concept for the play is “death at the center, life at the top”. This concept was difficult to apply it to music so I developed a different concept for the music, “suspense and rhythm” so then the sounds I looked for had to have some suspense, must be creepy… and as the instruments for the autopsy are metallic I developed this to found metallic sounds for the autopsy instruments.

The music for the ritual part is the most difficult for me. I imagine the ritual with “tribal” music, with drums for example, and I found some of this music, this linked to the concept as it has a lot of rhythm and it’s kind of mystical and this creates suspense in a way. The problem I have is that I don’t know if it is justifiable to have this kind of music because the music I had at the beginning is more “classic”, and as the mood in the play, although is black comedy, tends to be “sad” as there is a dead person and we are situated in a morgue I don’t know if its justifiable to use “tribal” music in a part of the play or if it breaks up with the concept and it would sound messy as different genders of music are being used.

Connections:

In the school plays the music used is always the same gender for each play, so for example in shadow queendom it was like classical but for down to earth it was like jazz, the instruments used where also the same.

In hebras for example the music used is played by gitar and although it changes of rhythm it is the same gender.

Reflection:

Although I could found some classical music from the same gender than the other music I propused I think that the tribal music for the ritual gives a different effect so then; can the mix of music genders be justified in a play?