John Cage

John Cage is our theme for for working at our grace project. He was born in september 5 , 1912 to August 12, 1992 and he was an american composer. He had performed a music performance without playing any notes. The performance was merely 4 minutes and 33 seconds. He had also become on of the greatest controversial pioneers in the world.

Qinan Reflection

Last week for our grace project, we have discuss a lot and we have decided to change the topic something else as the topic on dengue fever does not have much to talk about so we change to something else which is to create a kind of tune and it is a very interesting game to play as it is specially design for the children. So for today’s lesson we have to discuss how to create interesting music and how to teach the children how to play the game. After this lesson we have lots of idea and it is very interesting and we hope our plan can carry out successfully

Ding Ren Reflection

This is my reflection on the Lesson 8. In the lesson 8, our teacher suggested that my group should change our theme for the project, as the current theme was quite difficult to do because the scientist had done the most researches on it. Our teacher gave us some choices and we decided to choose the musical card game. In order to make the musical card game, we had to do researches on the random music. I hope after changing our theme, we could score higher marks.

John Cage

Our theme's inspiration for the music game is taken from john cage. John Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4′33″, the three movements of which are performed without a single note being played. A performance of 4′33″ can be perceived as including the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, rather than merely as four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence and became one of the most controversial compositions of the twentieth century.

our game is based on the rule of making random music with all the cards we have. after we have done the survey, we shall start the creation of the game.

Change of topic in our GRACE project

After looking at our project, Mr Verella said that our topic was not a good idea as that topic had been researched by people and there is nothing for us to write on ourselves so we cannot get good grades as we have no creativity. After discussing with our group members, we decided to change the topic to creating a music game. As our teacher is a music teacher, she can help us when we need and when we don't understand anything. The game rules are that players must grab the cards they want and whose cards that can compose a nice melody which had been voted by the players will win the game.

New idea for the GRACE project

As Mr Varella said our topic wasn’t a very ideal one, we decided to change the topic to creating a music game. The game will be like a snap game which players must be quick enough to grab the cards the want. Any musical instrument and the melody will play the cards that they have, which is the nicest (voted by the players). Players can discard the cards in their collection if they feel it isn’t suitable to what they want to play later on.

7th week of grace reflection

This is the 7th week of the grace project and we have completed the project planner which will help us in the future grace research. We each have tasks to do. My job is to research on how weather affects the spread of dengue to come out with a solution relating to weather.