Tag Archive for 'Artistry'

How does musical improvising affect communication?

on March 27, 2008

How does musical improvising affect communication between people? What kind of insights can it bring?
Two experiences in the last weeks have brought me some direct and perhaps startling challenges relating to musical improvising and how this stimulates communication between people, bringing insight, but also stirring up fear and at times a desire to reject artistic […]


Art as research

on March 25, 2008

My collaboration with visual artist Barbara Philipp started with a simple scheme of ‘improvisation’ and ‘conversation’ between music and visual arts. From that starting point we developed an effective and inspiring artistic/ reflective process and method of research that follows some clear steps. It is worthwhile writing it down to make the working process concrete.


Lab21 about freedom

on March 7, 2008

Today was the third meeting with Lab21. Lab21 is a small group of master-students from the Royal Conservatoire. They meet me on a monthly basis for a two hour session on artistry and artistic reflection. This time the given task by e-mail was to prepare a quotation on freedom.