Postings/contributions in the 'improvisation and reflection' Category




Exercising improvisation

on May 9, 2008

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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 […]

Improvisation in image and sound

on May 9, 2008

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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, […]