Inspiration

It comes from a lot of places--inspiration. For the PPP, it specifically has to come from the stimuli that IB provides. For the practice PPP that we will be completing before Winter Break, our teacher has come up with her own stimuli. Today was our opportunity to preview all of them. For some reason, I am oddly drawn to music. Something in the dynamics of the music always helps me to come up with a plot line. I wonder if this would be considered too simple in the sense that my performance would just reflect the plot line of the music.

The music stimulus for this practice was Yo-Yo Ma's "IV. Allegro molto from Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major." The music was interesting in that there were two voices--the cello and the piano--that really dominated the entire piece. I played off this idea of duality in my proposal and turned it into an entire performance. It was quite interesting to get inspired by one detail that then lead to another and another. Pretty soon it's just a number of ideas snowballing down a hill. In developing my proposal, I found it difficult to know how far to take it. I know we are not suppose to develop any sort of script, but how do you propose an entire performance without a script. It's tricky.