My group members for this project are: Dan, Reece and Tove.
Dan – Main instrument is guitar but also plays keys and sings. His music influences are progressive rock/pop, ambient music and black metal and his band influences are Radiohead and Muse.
Reece – Main instrument is guitar but for this project he will be playing his second main instrument, drums. He likes playing in a range of styles and his influences are Nirvana, Radiohead, Gorillaz, Alpha Male Tea Party and All The Witches.
Tove – Main instrument is voice and keys. For this project we decided that she should play the bass and sing since we don’t have a bass player in our group. Her influences are 90’s Brit Pop and electronic indie.
Me – Main instrument voice and keys. My influences are Chet Faker/Nick Murphy, Dope Lemon, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Joji, Fyfe and Radiohead.
Our Influence for our first piece: Sigur Rós – Varúð
Sigur Rós is an icelandic band. Their main genre is post-rock, avant-rock and ambient music. We decided that we’re going to make an ambient style song similar to the one I linked of theirs.
We want it to have different dynamics throughout the piece, soft synths chords, multi-effects on the electric guitar for solos/improvisation, big build ups on the drums and soft vocals with reverb for spacey harmonies (vocals will come in in different parts of the song, not consistent).
We will be using simple and different cue systems for communicating with each other, for example changing the cords for one section, bringing in and taking out instruments and starting and finsihing the song. We will have free improvisation in one section of the song, which will be decided with a cue from a member and finally we will be avoiding simple song structures, like most pop songs have nowadays (verse, chorus, verse, bridge).
Mariana Bagulho 