For this assignment, my partner (Denis) and I performed "Static" live. This was the piece we submitted for Assignment 6, which is a gloomy, dramatic trap instrumental. We decided to keep the programmed 808 drums in the background of our performance. This is because we wanted the live performance of the beat to maintain the trap sound. This gave room for improvised instrumentation and freestyling over the drum loop. For the first leg of our performance, we replicated the sounds of the original beat as closely as possible. I played the beat's main melody using a Wurli keyboard sound, while Denis played the 808 bass notes. For the second leg, we allowed the full beat to play so we could improvise over it. We freestyled, and I eventually added improv trumpet playing over Denis' verse.

Assignment 7 - Static Live Performance (Andre F. & Denis S.)

Andre Flores