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- Free
- Large Ensemble
Phrases, Improvisation with Urban Maeder
Learn to perceive phrases. Play & Listen: listen to the chain of individual sounds of each player. Focus on speed, dynamics, and form.
- Large Ensemble
- Free
Thinking Silent Matter
The excercise focuses on improvisation in a large ensemble context, bringing attention to silence and reduced sound material with slowly changing parameters.
- Small Ensemble
- Free
- WarmUps/Games
Playing backwards
The musicians have to sit backwards. They then receive instructions to develop their reaction. Three deepening levels of development then follow.
- Large Ensemble
- Small Ensemble
- Free
Frozen Notes (Exercise in 7 parts)
Deconstructing and constructing the written musical material.
- Small Ensemble
- Free
A cycle of five short pieces
A cycle of five short pieces. Each member of the ensemble will start one piece and suggest an ending for it.
- Small Ensemble
- Free
Forming the ends of improvisations
To develop the ability to conclude a piece clearly and decisively,
- Free
- Small Ensemble
The Ostinato Game
Two players improvise on the basis of interlocking ostinatos. The subject of the exercise is rhythmic communication and sharing of a pulse.
- Free
- Small Ensemble
- WarmUps/Games
Patim Patam
Each player has to play an interval that goes to the same note, one ascending and the other descending.
- Solo Instrument Specific
- Free
Voice Games
Exploring vocal techniques for improvisation
- Free
- Large Ensemble
- Small Ensemble
Different demands of comping and being a soloist
Exercises for comping and soloing
- Free
- Large Ensemble
- Small Ensemble
Improvising with accents and articulations
Exercises for the development of parametric aspects
- Large Ensemble
- Free
"Cuts" Improvisation with Christoph Baumann
Cuts are simple cues, which generate unexpected sounds in Groups, enable to learn how to make fast and clear decisions, develop sound-memory and allow also the use of tonal aspects in conducted free music.
- Small Ensemble
- Free
Keep the solo going
This exercise is designed to improve solo playing. The solo can then be shared between the participants.
- Free
- Small Ensemble
- Cross Arts
Series 3; Part 2; Exercise. 3 - Injecting freedom and personal voice into structure step 7
Using speech-intonation based dialogue to further connect with the musical meaning.
- Free
- Small Ensemble
- Cross Arts
Series 3; Part 2; Exercise. 2 - Connecting further with the structure’s expressive power step 6
Using speech-intonation to connect with the musical meaning.
- Free
- Small Ensemble
- Cross Arts
Series 3; Part 2; Exercise 4 - Injecting freedom and personal voice into structure step 8
Vocal duo (singer & 2nd Vn) with the other three string players improvising from the instruments within structure.