Forum 1 - Week 5 - Collaborations (2)

This week we had another set of four students do their presentations, this time, again, about collaborations. The first speach was done about a man named Marc Cunningham, a dance teacher who made his own dance studio in 1953. He ad always been interested and heavily involved in collaborations. Late in the 1990's he decided to do a collaboration with two different popular bands, Radiohead and Cigros.
Radiohead was your typcal rck band, whilst cigros stepped out and became electronic to be different.
For the performance they split the performance into two halves - radiohead's performance and Cigros's performance, having two different sets of dancers. Cigros went first and radiohead preceeded. The performance was said to be a huge hit.

The second talk was about a man anmed Mike Pattern who did collaborations with many people including John Zorn, Kool Kieth, and the Executioners, which was interesing seeing as they were a hip hop band. He liked to make concept albums based on movies, one albmun hense named 'Director's Cut'.

Darren was the third person to do his speach, talking about two collaborators - Wayne and Joe. They were said to almost work as one, although it was hard to say as they always seemed to lie in interviews. It was said though that Joe always seemed to control everything.After many years they eventually went their own ways, Joe forming his own band.He also did a solo album in which he played al of the instruments throughout recording.
Frank went on to collaborate with different genres. He then started making movies and learnt about collaborating with film/TV/Sound people.

Lastly Alfred did his talk about why people collaborate, and went into detail about the advertising/world demand process. This started a good conversation throughout the class, letting everyone have their own opinion on what he had talked about.