4.2.2 Exercise 2 Layering Contrasting Ostinatos

Task Objectives

While exercising the same indexical, emergent and intersubjective aspects as Layering Ostinatos, Layering Contrasting Ostinatos differs by reducing ostinatos to two voices and creating ostinatos in response to a given context. Firstly, reducing ostinatos to duos simplifies density through less voices and thus also allows participants to observe interaction with greater clarity. Secondly, understanding that both duos will play simultaneously in the final stage of the exercise places group B in a position where they can aim to create a duo that is coherent with group A or not. By virtue of following group A, group B will either individually or collectively be influenced by group A and exhibit similar characteristics or not. The final combination of both duos asks both groups to consider how their respective individual parts and duos will potentially interact with the other duo. Furthermore, the duo and combined duos stages of the exercise allows for observation as to how parts are adjusted, expounded or maintained in relation to contexts.