VART3456: Bells Rehearsal and Dax Centre

I rehearsed my piece at the Bells today - cacophonous. Need to adjust velocities to about half their values and space out the density of note placement.

This is the piece I rehearsed today, not particularly pleased with it - may continue to experiment with other methods to realize this piece.






Before rehearsal I was able to hear the start of the curatorial speech from the exhibition at the Dax Centre at Melbourne Uni.

I found the focus of the exhibition to be compelling. I've often internally debated the merits of artworks created by children and the mentally ill - finding it hard not to consider them to be equal artistic value to those produced by adults not affected by mental health disorders. This exhibition highlighted this false dichotomy, or at least attempted to. All art is expression.

I would have liked to have heard the full presentation - but what I was able to witness in the pieces themselves and the first portion of the talk has at least inspired and validated some of my internal debate on this subject and given me a local reference point to explore the subject further, perhaps later in practise.