on April 8, 2008Flash
Bart van Rosmalen, of the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, and I did a session of free play, as we always do when we meet, last time he visited London. At the beginning of this clip we make really simple movements with our hands, backwards and forwards, up and down. It is though we are talking […]
on March 16, 2008How does one exercise improvisation? Helena Gaunt and I have developed a way of beginning we call the Stravinsky exercise: start playing using only a few notes, a single pattern, and the methods of variation. It is like musical chitchat.
on March 1, 2008On September 5, 2007 Helena Gaunt and I 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 I share some of my thoughts on this kind of interdisciplinary improvisation.
