Antigravity Informal Performance

An Orff Inspired Chamber Music Residency at Eastern Hutt

Improvising conversation with Hari Coo Coo

Thanks Mrs Williams and C1 for this little video of our music time this week!

Hari Coo Coo

https://soundcloud.com/nycos/hari-coo-coo

We are learning this lullaby from Nepal at the moment as we think about the earthquakes that have affected so many people.  We have been singing and sending all our love and hope to the people in Nepal helping and being helped.

Year Two students playing some Jon Madin pieces

We have been having lots of fun with Jon Madin's pieces for marimba.  We have been learning how to hold our mallets and use both mallets when we are playing.  We have also been learning about what an "octave" is by playing some scale songs including "Can You Click Your Sticks", and "Pudding on the Hill" by Jon Madin and "C is for Crocodile" (By C-Change).

Year Fives working on "Yay" by Fraser Bruce

We have been working on this piece for only three weeks and there are some tricky rhythms we are mastering!



This piece is going to be performed by Auckland students as part of the Auckland Marimba Festival later this year.  We are going to perform this piece with 'Mimosa', a professional chamber music group, as part of a NZ Chamber Music Residency programme at Eastern Hutt next term, very exciting.

Junior students having an "improvising conversation", creating question and answer melodies on the pentatonic scale.  We have been talking about how we can communicate with each other using gesture and watching each other closely to know when it is our turn to "speak".  We have also been talking about how when we create an answering melody we work our way back to the home note so the phrase sounds complete.