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two wacky darkies with an idea for world peace8.15.2002
so me and ed met tonight. we're begining work on group pieces. gah. i hate writing group pieces. to do a group pieceswell takes 10x as much energy and time as a normal pieces. the end result is awesome and fun, but the process, man. the process. so we're getting together again on monday to review our results. more later.
Okay, it occurs to me that some of you may not know what I mean by group pieces. group pieces are, basically, collaborations in writing and or performance. the hope is that the piece ends up having the best traits of all the artists involved.
There are basically 3 processes I've worked with the easiest is where its a list poem and basically everyone fills in the blanks. When I was in feedBACK this was our staple piece. I live for is the best example. Everyone wrote the beginning of the sentence, "I live for..." and each of us filled in the rest. Then we put them together in a way that made thematic sense and called it done.
The second process that I've worked with is assignments. I don't have a good example of this... hmm... okay... here's a hypothetical example. Say Ed and I were writing a piece about Lechon. We'd split up the stuff we had to write about. Ed would write about the crunchy skin while I wrote about carving. Then Ed'd write about the sauce while I wrote about the sides. Cheezy example, I know, but it's 2:36 am.
The hardest process is of each person writing independantly, then coming to the table, sharing and seeing what works together. Then if sections need to be developed, people go off again and come back. Basically it's, in my opinion, the best way to work because it's a series of rewrites. The duet I did with Taiyo was like that. The problem is that it literally took from October 2000 to February 2001 to write 4 minutes. gah!
Okay, I'm going to go now, but I'm going to talk to Ed about making sure we each post 1x a week to this. What do you think? Email me Omar@SuburbanFabulous.com.
Okay, it occurs to me that some of you may not know what I mean by group pieces. group pieces are, basically, collaborations in writing and or performance. the hope is that the piece ends up having the best traits of all the artists involved.
There are basically 3 processes I've worked with the easiest is where its a list poem and basically everyone fills in the blanks. When I was in feedBACK this was our staple piece. I live for is the best example. Everyone wrote the beginning of the sentence, "I live for..." and each of us filled in the rest. Then we put them together in a way that made thematic sense and called it done.
The second process that I've worked with is assignments. I don't have a good example of this... hmm... okay... here's a hypothetical example. Say Ed and I were writing a piece about Lechon. We'd split up the stuff we had to write about. Ed would write about the crunchy skin while I wrote about carving. Then Ed'd write about the sauce while I wrote about the sides. Cheezy example, I know, but it's 2:36 am.
The hardest process is of each person writing independantly, then coming to the table, sharing and seeing what works together. Then if sections need to be developed, people go off again and come back. Basically it's, in my opinion, the best way to work because it's a series of rewrites. The duet I did with Taiyo was like that. The problem is that it literally took from October 2000 to February 2001 to write 4 minutes. gah!
Okay, I'm going to go now, but I'm going to talk to Ed about making sure we each post 1x a week to this. What do you think? Email me Omar@SuburbanFabulous.com.
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