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I'm co-teaching this new course with dancer/choreographer Peiling Kao and pianist/composer Lona Kozik--on the legendary Dartington Estate. The course runs April 7-11, 2015, so if you're anywhere near southwest England... check it out!
Musicians will investigate the lines between live installation and environmental/furniture music. Participants will respond to different spaces on different levels, including but not limited to historical and geological research; sound walks using various listening and recording techniques; interviews with residents; multi-sensory attention, e.g. responding to the quality of air, sound, light, wind; sitting in a space over time; listening to and interacting with ambient sound as to a fellow musician.
Dancers will begin with arriving, emptying, grounding, tuning the body/mind to a state of receptivity and readiness as an entry point into the improvisational practice. Bring your pedestrian, virtuosic, subtle, mundane, curious, contemplative and ambiguous dancing. Through group exercises we will shed habits, expand our perceptual awareness of space and time, track inner monologues and more.
The collaborative focus will be on how musicians and dancers can work together from a shared focus as equals outside of the traditional role of providing accompaniment and/or setting.
Musicians will investigate the lines between live installation and environmental/furniture music. Participants will respond to different spaces on different levels, including but not limited to historical and geological research; sound walks using various listening and recording techniques; interviews with residents; multi-sensory attention, e.g. responding to the quality of air, sound, light, wind; sitting in a space over time; listening to and interacting with ambient sound as to a fellow musician.
Dancers will begin with arriving, emptying, grounding, tuning the body/mind to a state of receptivity and readiness as an entry point into the improvisational practice. Bring your pedestrian, virtuosic, subtle, mundane, curious, contemplative and ambiguous dancing. Through group exercises we will shed habits, expand our perceptual awareness of space and time, track inner monologues and more.
The collaborative focus will be on how musicians and dancers can work together from a shared focus as equals outside of the traditional role of providing accompaniment and/or setting.