Facilitators: Izumi Kimura and Cora Venus Lunny
This workshop is primarily designed for performers and composers. However, we welcome all participants, including teachers, listeners and people from any field or discipline.
Improvisation, or spontaneous composition, is a tool for obtaining higher musicianship, instrumental technique, communication, confidence, flexibility, imagination, and sensitivity, all while having fun.
What do I need to bring?
Just bring your own curiosity for exploring and practicing improvisation together in a judgement-free space; an open mind and ear; and an ambition to welcome the unknown.
What is the process?
We practice improvisation by improvising. We explore listening, independent thinking, and how to make musical agreements in real-time. There are exercises that get the ball rolling but primarily we learn to improvise by exploring interaction with each other. All participants will contribute by bringing their presence. In the shared space we can find entrances to the playground of musical possibility from any sound and silence. We will learn together how to trust our impulses and intuitions. Sound is the teacher.
What will I get from the experience?
The outcome is unique to each individual, everyone will learn whatever she or he needs to learn the most. The goal is not to create a ‘finished’ piece of music, but to nourish the environment for any seed of music to grow continuously. New music will emerge by the way of the process.
