Mini Analysis: Wala Is Life (Character)

Work: ‘Wala Is Life’
Composers/Creators: Allara Briggs Pattison
Performers: Allara
Album: Wala Is Life (Ditto Music, 2018)

Listen to this excerpt and describe the character and mood of this performance.

Aim for at least three words.

Need some ideas? See pages 140 & 141 in Decoding Sound.

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Did you have any of these?

• dark
• ominous
• eerie
• mysterious
• intense

Listen again and consider some others…

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Perhaps these were the words you chose…

• unnerving
• laid-back
• yearning
• unsettled
• oppressive

Or maybe you identified a completely different character – remember, as long as you can back up your choice with element evidence, you cannot be wrong.