Musical Improvisation

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Selected videos that illustrate classroom lecture and performance instruction, student work on assignments, and concerts and in-class workshops by several guest artists.

Mark Harvey, Tom Hall

Jul 17, 2015 LATEST EPISODE
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Lecture 12: Flexology student demonstrations

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 67:06

Students demonstrate their Flexology design assignments, in which they create a set of signals and associated thematic material for conducted group improvisation.

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Lecture 7: "In a Silent Way" and student demonstrations

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 48:20

This class begins with discussion of Miles Davis's "In a Silent Way," including its historical signficance and notes about the recording process. Then students demonstrate their modal melody design assignments, as inspired by the piece.

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Guest Artist Workshop 3.1: Electronics

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 79:55

Guest artist Neil Leonard describes his motivation for working with electronics, and plays samples of his work. He covers collaboration, site-specific work, audio processing software (SPEAR), found sounds, and sound libraries.

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Guest Artist Workshop 4.1: Tim Ray and Eugene Friesen

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 85:04

Guest artists Tim Ray (piano) and Eugene Friesen (cello), from the trio Tre Corda, demonstrate and discuss their approach: classical training, practicing and performing, the value of limits, curiosity, group roles, and improvising in a diatonic framework.

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Guest Artist Workshop 4.2: Tim Ray and Greg Hopkins

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 72:47

Guest artists Tim Ray (piano) and Greg Hopkins (trumpet) talk about their MIT concert from the previous week. Students learn one of Greg's compositions and then experiment with motivic, scale-based, and conversational improvisations.

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Lab 1: Introduction

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 56:34

This first lab session is about sonic experimentation, improvising free from judgments of right vs. wrong. It begins with structured improvisation exercises incorporating sound and movement, followed by more exercises with graphic notation.

Guest Artist Workshop 3.2: Electronics student demonstrations

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 66:28

Discuss concert, especially more details about live processing in performance, using pedals and effects. Then students demonstrate their work on the sound library design assignment.

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Concert Series 2: Natraj with guest Chitravina Ravikiran

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 118:05

This concert features the group Natraj, which blends Indian classical music, West African traditional music, and jazz into their own style; and special guest Chitravina Ravikiran.

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Concert Series 3: Neil Leonard and Robin Eubanks

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 82:55

This concert features saxophonist Neil Leonard and trombonist Robin Eubanks, each performing solo with live electronics, and then in a final duo.

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Concert Series 4: Tre Corda

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 69:16

This concert features the group Tre Corda: Tim Ray (piano), Eugene Friesen (cello), and Greg Hopkins (trumpet).

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Guest Artist Workshop 2.1: Indian Classical Music

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 73:58

A workshop on fundamentals of Indian classical music (both Hindustani (northern India) and Carnatic (southern India) traditions) as frameworks for improvising. Topics: range, density, pulse (tala), pitch series (raga), and characteristic phrases (chalan).

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Guest Artist Workshop 2.2: Indian Classical Music student demonstrations

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 72:51

This class begins with student demonstrations of Indian classical music frameworks for improvisation, as presented at the prior class. Then they collaborate on creating and trying out several new frameworks.

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Concert Series 1: FiLmprov

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2015 24:19

This concert video includes a opening music improvisation, followed by a short excerpt of the film with improvised music accompaniment.

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