Music with a Purpose - discovering ways to tell the story with sound and rhythm, instruments and timing!
22nd February to 26th March 2010

·       -  Improvising and devising sound-scapes with percussion instruments
·       -  Voice work with songs from all over the world and from different times past and present.
·       -  Exploring the power of musical elements such as rhythm, harmony and sound qualities

Music as a performing art is often hampered by the perception that the musician has to achieve a
high degree of technical fluency before being allowed to perform. We can be bold and learn to use our musical sense of mood and timing to the utmost by really listening to the best of our ability and so let the music come to us. Of course all instruments require a great deal of time invested in order to be mastered but music is a mode of being we can enter into far more than we realise. It is there in our daily lives in so many ways and when we strive to become conscious of our musicality we enter into a process of learning that will bring joy, depth and progressive challenges to our life.

This 5 week course will explore ways to become more familiar with and skilled in working with the musical elements through working with listening, singing (part-songs, folk-songs and rounds) and improvising with percussion instruments such as stones, sticks, drums (skins) boxes, triangles, gongs, bells, simple string harps and other sounds we discover along the way. These will be the materials for learning to create structured improvisations.

Course facilitator: Gregers Brinch