Extraordinary Times Videos

Continuing the 'creating music out of information' theme, here Rob takes the previous transcription of the famous Opera House chess game, and translates it onto different drum kits. We hope you enjoy the results! Do let Rob know if you have any ideas of other information that we can turn into music.

For more sessions from Baton Beats follow the Baton Beats playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET7zDhMVMwQ&list=PLiyOoe8br2C0l0cuEK3Xw4BConFIoNtTG

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This video is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme, a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

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Care for something a bit silly? It’s an old folksong arranged by Anna, including some new verses by PMZ participants.

Round Song: Whose Pigs Be These?
(Possibly from 1770 – from Merry Songs and Ballads prior to 1800 , Vol 3 Ed John Stephen Farmer)

Whose pigs be these? Whose pigs be these?
Oh they are John Potts’,
You can tell 'em by the spots
And I found them in the vicarage garden.

Whose pigs be these? Whose pigs be these?
It’s a Merrick sow and it’s bigger than a cow
And I found it in the vicarage garden.

Whose pigs be these? Whose pigs be these?
It belongs to a Beater,
It’s a keeper not an eater
And I found it in the vicarage garden.

Whose pigs be these? Whose pigs be these?
Well it looks like Pork, but it’s actually an Orc
And I found it in the vicarage garden.

(This new verse was by residents at The Rise, Plympton…a few years ago!)

Whose sheep be these? Whose sheep be these?
For they are Polly Hughes’
You can tell it by their shoes
And I found em in the vicarage garden.

(This new verse was by the Musical Misfits online June 2021)

Whose geese be these? Whose geese be these?
For they honk and they ponk
And they do the naughty stonk
And I found them in the vicarage garden

Whose pigs be these? Whose pigs be these?
Oh they are John Potts’,
You can them by the spots
And I found them in the vicarage garden.

To see more of Anna please listen to her playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiyOoe8br2C2Wv_dX26RnqrqFsN6SOi_B

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This is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme: a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial

This week Baton Beats music leader Rob Tilsley continues with last week's 'turning stuff that isn't music, into music' theme, using a famous chess game with the system created last week. Each 'turn' of the players (where they have played one move each) is a bar of music, and Rob used the 'Opera Game' played in 1858 between Paul Morphy and Duke Karl / Count Isouard.

For more sessions from Baton Beats follow the Baton Beats playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET7zDhMVMwQ&list=PLiyOoe8br2C0l0cuEK3Xw4BConFIoNtTG

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This video is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme, a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial

This week Baton Beats music leader Rob Tilsley explored what would happen if you played a sample backwards against itself, and then phased it. The results are interesting!

For more sessions from Baton Beats follow the Baton Beats playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET7zDhMVMwQ&list=PLiyOoe8br2C0l0cuEK3Xw4BConFIoNtTG

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This video is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme, a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial

This week Baton Beats music leader Rob Tilsley explored how much complexity of rhythm can we get with the simplest possible starting point: a 12 note phase on a one note-per-bar chord.

For more sessions from Baton Beats follow the Baton Beats playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET7zDhMVMwQ&list=PLiyOoe8br2C0l0cuEK3Xw4BConFIoNtTG

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This video is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme, a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial

"New Things" was created by The Musical Misfits (or “Monday Misfits” since some of the members have come together on Monday afternoons!) at Plymouth Music Zone, written under lockdown. This group is for musicians aged 55+.

Working online hasn’t been possible for everyone, but for those who have been attending, it’s been a great opportunity to create music differently, keeping busy listening to new kinds of music, creating original songs, lyrics, and generally keeping each other company whilst sharing memories and making musical decisions together.

…This piece explores memories of new things, brought together during the Zoom sessions. The recordings of group members’ voices made online - all whilst separate from one another, but very much collaborating.

We hope you enjoy this as we step into new things - emerging gradually from the pandemic with new and old memories.

For more information about Musical Misfits visit https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/musical-misfits/

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This video is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme, a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial

This week Baton Beats music leader Rob Tilsley has combined two ideas: The idea of a phase in speed, with the idea of a 'round'. He used the trusty 12/8 bell pattern which he set in four parts, then started the phasing.

For more sessions from Baton Beats follow the Baton Beats playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET7zDhMVMwQ&list=PLiyOoe8br2C0l0cuEK3Xw4BConFIoNtTG

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This video is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme, a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial