Experiment, Play, Discover

Across the three days you will expand your practice through engaging with graphic scores to create interpretable performance notations, visualising sound to explore the inner structures of sound, and playing with and listening with other musicians.

You’ll work together in small groups to perform and improvise in small ensembles, and will also receive individual attention to any questions you may have. 

Please let us know the instruments you intend to bring when you apply. You don’t need to demonstrate instrumental proficiency, but you do need to come with an open mind and a willingness to experiment! This can be a good opportunity to explore an instrument you are less familiar with. This course will close with a final sharing and reflection session to celebrate the ideas that have been explored.

By the end of the course, you will be able to: 

• gain confidence in open-ended collaborative music making in improvised settings.
• develop an understanding towards creating and interpreting graphic scores in small groups.
• work with sound analysis tools to explore the inner structure of sounds and to bring ideas from this into your own practice.

• meet and connect with like minded musicians and potential collaborators.

   

First you will meet as as a full group, then you'll break down into smaller groups to work on graphic score making, performing, collaborating, improvising, visualising and field recording. You will have your first session after dinner on the Monday and will finish with a sharing and reflection session before departure on Wednesday.

All instrumentalists and singers are welcome! You don’t need to be already playing or singing at a high level for this course, but it is important that you come with an open mind to try out new forms of music making, new approaches to working together, and new ways of thinking about musical habits and practices.

You don't need to prepare anything. Just bring yourself, your instrument if you're playing one, and an open mind.