4.2.9 Exercise 9 Hidden Grooves and Making Tunes

Task Objectives

As the title suggests, Hidden Grooves and Making Tunes is a juxtaposition of Hidden Groove and Signalling and Making Tunes and thus incorporates and exercises the same concepts. However, once the two contrasting grooves have been established via signalling and transitions between sections, the exercise introduces the concept of creating new melodies and improvised solos over these contrasting sections. In asking participants to create melodies, it encourages thematic material that is discernible from improvised solos. Repetition arising from thematic material can introduce a forward-looking outlook and allow participants to plan their interactions to a certain degree. Creating melodic material can also be telling in terms of intersubjectivity and the stylistic indices referred through this melodic material.