Rock Quest 90030 Assessment Composition

Smoke Free Rock Quest
Dear students of Opotiki College, today I am going to inform you of how our school band went at the 2009 Smoke free Rock Quest that happened in the weekend. A Rock Quest is as competition where all the school bands meet up and rock out in front of a real audience and compete to be the best in New Zealand.

For you students who didn’t know but, our school has a band called “Untouchables” There are 5 students in the school band, Alex (lead singer), Brendon (backup vocals) Leon (drums), Willy (lead guitar) and George (base guitar). Together they have been working extremely hard in their spear time over the past term to put all their musical notes together, and come up with a great catchy sound, that would “Wow” the judges.

And in doing so they travelled all the way down to the Music Theatre in Taranga on the weekend and they all tried their absolute hardest and put in 120% effort 120% of the time they spent down there. And it certainly paid off, not only did they win the competition, they also broke the record for the most genres they could play in the one song, which gave them an extra $1,000 which they could spend on improving their instruments and equipment (which believe me, it really needs doing).

So the team travelled down to Taranga in the school minivan and set up base camp at the cheapest broken down camping site you would ever see, they rock n rolled all weekend long. Having the time of their lives, with the crowd going wild the band never wanted to leave. They wanted to stay there and live the life of a “Rockstar”. But it was all over too soon they thought, and when Sunday came around it was time to pack up and begin the long journey home. So there we have it students. We can be proud to say that we have the best band in New Zealand!

Album-Orientated Rock 90030 Assessment

Album-Orientated Rock
Originally designed to describe a radio format that emphasises various album tracks rather than hit singles only. When broadcasters began to apply structured formatic techniques to the so-called “free form” underground radio of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the result was the more commercial and more profitable album-orientated rock. The format became even more restrictive, scrapping the various-album-tracks approach in favour of concentrating airplay on one “emphasis track” at a time from an album, and the term album-orientated rock was replaced in the ‘90s by “rock” or “rock tracks”.

Album orientated rock has also come to describe a certain style of rock, usually the mainstream or “corporate” brand as opposed to more extreme styles. A caution British writers frequently interpret the acronym to stand for “Adult-Orientated Rock,” and thus misuse album-orientated rock to describe pop artists whom Americans would more commonly describe as ‘adult contemporary” or even ‘middle of the road.”

Music Television
The first full-time music video network on cable television, signed on in the United States in 1981. Music television immediately made the visual image of an artist as important as the music itself, resulting in huge success for groups that were telegenic enough to appeal to viewers. Duran Duran, Culture Club and George Michael were some of the first performers to feel the impact of music television on their careers. In the long run, videos became an essential promotional tool for virtually all rock artists, and many artists embraced video as another avenue for artistic expression.

Detractors, however, say that the pervasiveness of music videos means that listeners no longer conjure up their own images when listening to a song; the images have already been conjured up for them, eliminating the pleasure – and responsibility – of using one’s imagination.

Source © 1996 Microsoft Music Corporation and/or its suppliers.