on May 9, 2008Flash | QuickTime
How does one exercise improvisation? Helena Gaunt and Bart van Rosmalen have developed a way of beginning they call the Stravinsky exercise: start playing using only a few notes, a single pattern, and the methods of variation. Bart van Rosmalen: “It is like meeting someone saying: ‘Hi how are you, where do […]
on May 9, 2008Flash | QuickTime
On September 5, 2007 Helena Gaunt and Bart van Rosmalen collaborated with painter Liselot Schut in an improvisation in image and sound. This post shows excerpts from the film that was made out of this collaboration, and Bart van Rosmalen sharing his thoughts on this kind of interdisciplinary improvisation. He noted, […]
on May 9, 2008Flash | QuickTime
Helena Gaunt and Bart van Rosmalen, the initiators of the project Art in conversation, explain where the initial idea for the project came from. At a conference on music education they felt something was missing: there was a lot of talk going on about music, but music itself somehow was not there. […]
on May 9, 2008Flash | QuickTime
Bart van Rosmalen talks about how the collaboration with Helena Gaunt has changed his perspective on improvisation. He has a lot of experience improvising: “I used to think I was a completely free player.” But then Helena introduced him to the concept of ‘sitting not knowing’: really not knowing what you’re going […]