Today war our first full day focused on our specific interests. I was in a group of four working on music with Johnny, specifically singing. Throughout the morning we did a lot of vocal exercises that got us more comfortable with singing and each other. There is a wide variety of voices and experience in this group, even with only 4 people. We talked about what we want to be seen, heard and valued about. It was interesting to learn about singing and music without a piano or other pitch-creating instrument. It helped a lot with training our ears. We worked on finding different pitches, harmonizing, finding our ranges, and many other things. We sang Silent Night and Johnny created different harmonies for us to sing. It needed some work, but sounded good. We worked on some complimentary notes and rhythms, which also taught a lot about improvisation and finding the full chord, which are both important aspects of singing. The exercises were really all over the place, improving our strengths in a multitude of musical areas. We also worked a little bit, at the end, on coming up with some ideas for the topic of our piece. When we got together as the full group after lunch, we put the different creative outlets together and got to saw all the smaller groups’ work. My group performed “Silent Night.” We meshed our own work with the other groups such as rap and dance, and created something completely different. It was cool to see how the different groups’ work influenced each other when we performed together.