Workshop in German language.
This workshop is aimed at those interested in incorporating improvisation into their professional context or who want to deepen their professional experience. The weekend offers the opportunity to explore the wealth of musical improvisation rules by Lilli Friedemann and Matthias Schwabe together and to reflect on them methodically.
Lilli Friedemann (1906-91) was a pioneer in the teaching of musical improvisation. Since the 1960s, she has developed a working method that was aimed at very different target groups: children and adults, beginners and advanced musicians, musical amateurs and professional musicians.
To this end, she invented numerous rules that can be found stylistically in both traditional and experimental music and that combine the joy of playing with elementary creative experience. In particular, her last two books, “Entry into new sound areas through group improvisation” (1973) and “Drumming-Dancing Tones” (1983), offer a great wealth of rules.
Matthias Schwabe was a student of Lilli Friedemann from 1979, later his assistant and right-hand man. His book “Music through playing”, published in 1992, contains 55 additional rules based on Lilli Friedemann’s working methods and supplements the treasure trove of rules.
The workshop is aimed at people who want to get to know the working methods of Lilli Friedemann and Matthias Schwabe better, or who want to deepen existing experience and expand their own repertoire of rules.
In addition to trying out the rules of the game in practice, there will also be space to think about and discuss the special features of this approach, your own experiences and, if necessary, “difficult teaching situations”.
