Graphic score interpretation activity

http://www.creative-ed.ca/creative-ed/Graphic_Score.html

from R. Murray Schafer, appears in Hearsing

The class is divided into groups and each group is given the drawing below:  Each group has ten minutes to prepare a performance using the drawing as a musical score.  This could be done with voices or with instruments.  Although quite simple, the shapes in the drawing are very suggestive of different sonic textures and the number and variety or interpretations is unlimited.

Let each group perform their “interpretation” and then explain it.