Category: Improvising
Making music in the moment; resources for doing improvisation
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Improv with Audio Files and Computers
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Read more: Improv with Audio Files and ComputersI heard an interesting concert last Friday. The New England Phonographers Union appeared in the Art Without Borders concert series at the Democracy Center in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. They each make their own audio recordings of “found sound”, whatever is going on in the world around them. Then, without further editing, maybe just a…
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Improv classes and composition lessons
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Read more: Improv classes and composition lessonsI’ve talked to various teachers who tell me that there’s a lot of attrition in their private teaching studios. Parents have lost jobs or are moving or are just cutting back. So it’s a bad time to launch myself into teaching. But that’s what I’m doing! I’ll be offering an improv class – Free Improv…
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First Monthly Improv Workshop for Classical Musicians
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Read more: First Monthly Improv Workshop for Classical MusiciansLast week, I finally started my series of improv workshops for classical musicians. I’ve been thinking about doing this ever since I went to John Clark’s horn improv workshops in Heath, MA last July. My workshopshttp://www.hmmusic.com/index.html are open to anyone who is interested in classical free improv. We try various styles: modal & melodic, aleatoric,…