On this page, you can find the Culminating Experience (CE) Projects for all graduate students from the Berklee College of Music master’s program Global Jazz from 2015 – present. Click on any title for more information and access to the full paper and other deliverables (if available).
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An Exploration of the Music of Conlon Nancarrow
Isaac Wilson
2016In this Culminating Experience project, I set out to gain a much greater understanding of Conlon Nancarrow’s unusual compositional language, with the goal of having a recorded document of my interpretation of Nancarrow’s music as an end result. My goal was to synthesize the harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic language of American-born composer Conlon Nancarrow. I set out to record four of his compositions: Study No. 3B, Study No. 10, Study No. 12, and Study No. 20, with the addition of one jazz standard from the Great American Songbook.
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South African Historic Moments (A Journey towards Peace and Unity)
Kabelo Witness Matlou
2016The project will be a live Jazz orchestra performance. The concert will consist of original compositions, influenced by South African history. The music will function as accompaniment to narrated historic events of South Africa. The narration will consist of live speaking, speech, voice over, text reading and conversations. I will also use video interviews and pictures of historic figures and events, accompanied by the live Jazz orchestra. Compositional ideas will be based around the mood and message set by what the narrator is presenting. The music along with the narration will make up a total of 50 minutes performance. Presented to a live audience, or a live studio recording.