Generative improvisation - 1er Cycle
Information
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Name
Generative improvisation
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Cycle
1st Cycle
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Course's number of years
2 years
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Maximum duration
2 or 3 years
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Delivered diploma
Prices
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Course objectives and content
Generative Improvisation is a form of free improvisation based on the principles of listening and instant musical invention. It is not based on any particular musical style or idiom, although questions of individual and collective memory are raised, and there are many links with traditional and improvised music.
The Generative Improvisation class is aimed at instrumentalists and singers wishing to diversify their practice by developing their capacity for musical invention. By accumulating experience and reflecting on the concepts specific to improvisation, students should be able to deal with a wide range of situations while asserting the specificity of their own musical experience.
- development of each musician's inventive potential in contexts of collective or individual improvisation
- awareness of sound phenomena through complementary ear training
- Broadening of instrumental or vocal technique through exposure to other modes of playing (instrumental, vocal, gestural, etc.)
- Broadening of instrumental or vocal technique through exposure to new real-time sound processing techniques
- Practical and theoretical approach to innovative forms of concert (performances, musical theatre, multimedia)
- Practical and theoretical approach to working with other forms of artistic expression (dance, film, video, etc.)
Collective improvisation workshop in small or large groups
New technologies workshop and control of sound processing in real time (individual or small group improvisation)
Workshop on the study of improvisational forms and structures (knowledge of current trends, in relation to composition, contemporary music and artistic creation in general)
Didactics of improvisation, exercises.
In addition to the usual course content, numerous meetings and interventions are organised with theatre and dance groups and artists from the visual arts world.
ENTRY PROCEDURES
The class is open on the basis of an entrance examination to students currently studying at the CNSMDs in Lyon and Paris (instrumental, vocal or theoretical disciplines), except for ERASMUS/EUJAM exchange students, and to those who have completed their studies in the school year preceding enrolment.
The application form must include
- a curriculum vitae ;
- a letter of motivation.
Deadline for applications: 1 week before the test.
To be sent by e-mail to eronce-kaddoura@cnsmdp.fr
Test dates: 6 October 2023
Admission :
1 - Written test (non-eliminatory): 10.00-12.00, Salle Emmanuel
Perceptive" analysis of musical extracts in the form of recorded or written documents.
The aim is to assess the student's :
- their ability to recognise (at an elementary level) the morpho-typological qualities of sound (dynamic forms, mass, grain, variation in timbre, etc....);
- secondly, knowledge of how all kinds of music work (instrumental or electroacoustic, from different periods and traditions).
2 - Instrumental or vocal tests: 14:00-18:00, Stage 3 + Stage 2 (warm-up)
- Solo improvisation test (free and compulsory) followed by an interview with the jury (20' maximum); collective improvisation test (10 to 15').