OCG II Course, Day 3

10/26/2009 - Up at 5:50 a.m, or 8:50 a.m., Boston. Shower, went in for sitting. Made it through 60 points, after relaxing, with 15 min to spare.

Breakfast.

10 a.m. Gnarlies in Dining room, working on the map of 5/16 over 5/4.

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Completing this work, David then requested to present a game that was often used in improv theater, which is one of his backgrounds. In "Lumberjack", a vocalization is passed around the room: "Whooh." It is passed by one person, who raises his or her arms up as if a tree, and then is "chopped down" by the two people flanking him or her. The intent is passed to a random person in the circle, who then becomes a tree, and passes to another person.

11:10 > 11:40, taught Bruno Eye of the Needle; he'd seen me playing it in the circle, yesterday.

11:45, House of Guitars.

When ready, begin--stopped quickly.
When ready, begin, rain.
Then, sunshine.
Then, rain again.
Then, blue skies.
Whizzing with magic chord, with Mariana and Mary Beth heading up each half of the room (because "women are vicious!"). 90° displacements around the circle.

1 p.m., lunch, with various comments on communication. Lumberjack game mentioned.

2 p.m., Level T.

3 p.m., guitars with Curt and Jaxie. Moving around and maintaining awareness of the whole space and one's immediate space, and then forming four circles, in each quadrant of the room. Each group has a leader. Patrick, in G1, plays a note, repeatedly. Greg, in G2, plays a complementary note. The next two leaders blend in with the other two.

Now, each group complements their leader. G1 now changes, gradually, and G2 changes to match, once they've sensed the full change. Each group in response. Now, groups circulate within themselves in C Major. Eventually, all groups circulating. Brought to a close by Curt.

Now, G4(new leaders all around) plays with a simple motif, with each member of the group playing something to complement that. G2 (led by myself, now) responds in kind, followed by G1 and G3. This moves around, until brought to a sort of conclusion by Curt.

4 p.m.: tea.

4:45 - 6 p.m.: free time. Adrian, David, and I find ourselves talking about performance challenges, and small talk in general. We decide to go into the chapel, which is thankfully free, and work with circulating C Major in 3 octaves (low open C to 8th fret C) up and down. After a bit of this, we try "Soundball", another David game--instead of direct circulation, we pass across the circle. This is difficult with only 3 people, but quite fun. Added Ryan to the circle. After a bit more of this, we shift to circulation in C Major, free, with Alan and Mark (who both happen to be AAD participants). We try shifting to a sort of form, as we become more comfortable with this: straight circulation, 4 passes around the circle, and then random passing around, with ability to pass around and start straight circulation.

Music appeared.

6 p.m.: Body beat w/ Tony G.
6:30 p.m: Quiet time.
7 p.m.: Dinner is late; I suspect that there's been a delay (someone was burned, apparently).

9:30 p.m.: House of guitars.

When ready, duet.
When ready, duet (a different duet).
The same duet, joined by the circle. This is unintentionally humorous, with RF first cuing the circle to "crash the party" with a massive magic chord. This apparently doesn't quite do the job, as the two continue to play very sensitively with each other. So, the circle truly joined in.

When ready, fast.
When ready, slow.
When ready, hot.
When ready, cold.

At the end of the night, bed at roughly 11:30 p.m, or 2:30 Boston.