Introduction to extended techniques and improvisation with percussion

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People are invited to bring objects to consider as potential elements of sound, objects that add acoustic interest and sonority approach out from traditional instruments, or in addition to them as the instrument itself.

 

1.- Use any kind of surface, materials and textures as sticks.
2.- Use any kind of surface, materials and textures as drums.
3.- Rhytmic combinations around wood, plastic and metal.
4.- Scratch, friction and trembling rythms.
5.- Combination of textures and materials to create more interesting rythms.
6.- Flotation in drums as principle of surrounding atmospheres.
7.- The voice as other important element in rhytm.
8.- How to use silence to produce syncopathion.
9.- Cutting and incomplete notes.
10.- Polyrhythm and irregular times
11.- The importance of color in percussion, nuances and density vs dynamics
12.- Brief introduction to conducted improvisation and prearranged signals

 

 

Specific exercises for ensembles.
Duets and trios

 

1 .- We will work with two microphones to document and record the process of students in the workshop.
2.- Sometimes, also, listen to the previous recordings immediately after playing, to raise awareness of volumes and nuances in the execution while improvise.
3.- Work the individual sound. Small solos each student ( 1- 3 min )
Objectives.- Listen, concentration, sense of reductionism, objectivity and intuition.
4 .- To develop a dialogue between students, we will work in duets and trios in different ways.
- Free improvisation duos and trios. (3 -5 min)
- Duets and trios. Conducted improvisation (prearranged signals and conduction)
- Short sounds.
- Work in sound textures were silence is present.
- Find the final
- Clear beggining
5.- Solos in the group: the rest of the group does not come until the silence solo stops.
Know how to find the silence while the others are playing

 

 

Final exercise
Ensemble

 

We will make a collective improvisation where duos and trios will work as cells, and all together as a brainy ensemble
led with prearranged signals. (graphic partiture)
- fade in, fade out transitions, panning, time, puntillism, density, come trhough...

 

Note: depending on the number of students and their interests, and the number of days allocated to the workshop, the program may be extended or simplified as the case.