Key words
h805-music-improvisation
Objectives
Improvisation aims at the realisation of competences which are less oriented towards the acquisition of technical playing skills but more towards deepening creativity, sensibility, ingenuity, the love of experimenting and the deepening of general musicality. This study unit boosts alertness and daring in combined play and the ability to dissociate oneself from the written score.
Topics
The subject unit ‘Introduction to Improvisation’ aims at the acquisition of musical expression skills, in a context where an a priori text is absent. Personal ingenuity is of fundamental importance here.
It sharpens group dynamic skills, developing on one side fast and adequate reaction to input by others and on the other the willingness to take responsibility for input directed towards the group.
Improvisation, seen as a non-competitive game, can both be applied and practised in strictly or vaguely idiomatic contexts and as a result cover a range of style from baroque ex-tempore, over flamenco, tango, blues, muzak, meditative drones, … to and including the more extreme avant-garde sound experiments.
Whatever the idiomatic context, the student’s capacity for personal expression will be expanded through one or more of the following means:
a. - through the development of specific techniques on the personal instrument.
b. - through learning ‘extended’ techniques on the student’s own and on other instruments.
c. - through the introduction and use of experimental instruments and sources of sound.
The study goals set will be acquired through practising improvisation in small groups at music sessions and through the feedback immediately afterwards.
Prerequisites
Final Objectives
Creativity
The student is able to express his own artistic vision and musical intuition by means of a personal and artistically edifying instrumental musical interpretation.
• Possesses great musical sensibility
• Possesses excellent musical imaginative powers
• Possesses thorough technical skills with a prominent musical style and musical personality
• can improvise various styles, both individually and in group.
• develops his own personal and original style and expression in his musical performances
• Pays open-minded attention to non-Western music cultures and sound idioms.
• if the musical style of the specialisation calls for it, is passionate about pioneering musical experimentation in areas where opinions, cultures, styles and genres overlap.
• Is able, when the musical style calls for it, to use a variety of electronic equipment, information technology and electronic media for artistic projects
• possesses the attitude needed to deepen and refine musical expression.
Collaboration skills
The student can make a substantial artistic contribution to the musical group process.
• exhibits candour, sympathy, respect and appreciation towards the responsibilities and interests of others he cooperates with.
• can cooperate with others even on a subject that is of no immediate interest to him personally.
Materials used
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Depending on the lecturer of the study unit.
Study costs
None
Study guidance
Study progress report talks
Teaching Methods
Tutorials
Projects
Exhibition days
Assessment
The students are evaluated by the lecturer on the basis of permanent evaluation.
Projects involving improvisation that ran during the study year in question may be included under permanent evaluation.
Lecturer(s)
Bart Maris , Hans Lamal, Godfried-Willem Raes, Peter Vandenberghe
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