How do musicians learn? Do we learn something every time we play? What do we learn?
These questions, although often characteristically thought to be quite intrinsic in studying music, more often than not, highlight the difference between a good musician and a better one.
on January 26, 2009On januari 12th flutist, improviser and composer Anne la Berge worked for two hours with masterstudents improvising by experimenting with, as I interpreted, interhuman and ‘interinstrumental’ contact.
Lector and teacher Bart van Rosmalen provided Anne and participating students with guidelines written on cards to reflect on this evening’s experience and challenged them to relate their reflection […]
Research Project
The intention is to recreate as far as possible an aural approach to learning music and improvisation.
My hypothesis is:
1) That memory was much more highly developed in the 17th and 18th Centuries than it is today
2) That musicians would absorb the style of the music which surrounded them through memory, while […]
During the ‘mime piece’, it looked as if the performers were following the same instructions and were trying to do the same thing, but in fact each performed something different. This distance between what we presume the instructions are, and what was actually performed, was what I found interesting, because it draws one closer […]