Week 2: Jamming on the Turandot theme

Date: 25th March, 2025

Time: 4- 5:30pm

Venue: Pats Pa 11

Our meeting this week is slightly different from the previous ones that we have done. The meeting take place during the lecture time and our lecturer Dr. Tom Armstrong will be come in and out and making note on our meeting so that he can provide us some feedback towards the end of the lecture. With all the set-up, this section is really only an hour long.

Our main focus this week is on “In questa reggia” from Puccini’s Turandot. (Absolutely not because I have bias on Puccini and I have watched Turandot in the Royal Opera House the day before the meeting). I have extracted three melodic lines from the music as possible materials to work with Genie, which shown below:

(Theme 1)

(Theme 2)

(Theme 3)

• the difference between our two voices (Folky and pop and operatic)

• we just tried how far we can go without technology modifications, enhancement > Make reasons for using the effect.

• Each of the attempt is different, the third one is extreme attempt (exploring timbre and texture of the voice)

• listening > Get more comfortable to sing together in different styles.