Starting from Scratch - Improvisation workshop- Thursday 6th April 2006
- Recital Room, Larkin Building, Hull University
- 10am - 4pm
- £20 (including refreshments)
Composition is sometimes described as "frozen improvisation". This day is designed to allow you to chill out, try out ideas and reach the point where you wish to preserve your instant composition!
The day's aims are:
- To provide a basic knowledge of improvisation techniques and skills
- To help improve confidence and competence in developing musical ideas
- To advise on the use and context of improvisation in the workshop process
- To offer information on further learning and development
- To lose inhibitions!
The aim of this course is to remove the mystery that surrounds the ability to improvise. It is a practical course for players of any instrument, or voice, to help leaders to become improvisers and encourages improvisers to take control of the creation and direction of their music making. The workshop will be concerned with the action of composing immediately - as a creative practice involving the intuitive, the rational and the performing senses.
It is intended for community musicians, artists, practitioners and musicians who want to develop their skills and ability in using improvisation within a workshop context.
The objectives of the day are:
- To improvise on a given theme
- To convey an emotion through improvising
- To lose all inhibitions
The workshop will run from 10 am to 4 pm. Sessions will be given over to work with instruments, percussion and voice, using a variety of techniques and starting points. Examples include, improvising on a given theme, exploring emotion through improvisation, responding to different stimuli, etc. There will be plenty of opportunity to share practice, problems, and experiences. Instrumentalists should bring their instruments.
GRAHAM COATMAN is an accomplished composer, pianist and musical director with very wide experience of and special interest in community & education projects. Over the past 5 years he has led projects for the spnm/PRSF/Youth Music Sound Inventors, the Sample & See and Sound Sculptures projects in 2003-4 for Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, a large Composition in the Classroom project in 4 LEAs in Yorkshire, been on the education advisory panel to Wigmore Hall since its inception in 1995, and project manager for a large Youth Music programme at Beaumont Street Studios, Huddersfield. Currently he is National Project Manager for Creative Partners for Progression (a joint project with Creative Partnerships and Aim Higher in 8 regions from Tees Valley to Plymouth) and on the board of Arts & Education and the staff of Leeds College of Music.
Recent and forthcoming performances include the premiere of Des Vols Des Anges (soprano, guitar electronics & piano) at Latour Festival, France (summer 2005), a jazz piano suite Where I Was Before at Leeds University and Leeds College of Music (October & November 2005). His children's musical The Dolphin's Adventure will be performed in Australia in March 2006.
To book onto this training, please call Clare Games on 01422 321 823.
