29/11/2006

Some Initial Outcome Ideas:

Ive started to become interested in the way in which Beethoven evoked a sense of emotion through his writing and the delivery of his performances. I find it interesting how poeple are emotionally affected by Beethoven's symphony's in different ways. Beethoven's intention was to interact and evoke the emotional senses of his audience during a performance.

After conducting my Research on Beethovens life I found out that during the Premiere of the Eroica Beethoven's his deafness was so bad that it resulted in him not being able to hear the applause of his own audience. As his disability worsened the only way poeple could communicate with the composer was by writing thing's down. I think it might be interesting to take this concept further and look into ways of representing music and how an audience feels about the music they are listening too in visual term's.

As music communicates different messages and emotions to different people I think it is will be important to interact with the audience by going outside and interviewing as many people as poss. I might be interesting to play them the Eroica Symphony by recording how people feel about the music today.