The exploratorium offers a wide range of different instruments and sounding objects which invite you to play and explore them.
What sounds and rhythms can we discover for ourselves? How can we as a group develop common pieces of music?
We don’t need scores for that! Instead, we will use playing rules to invent music together that hasn’t existed before.
Previous music knowledge is not necessary, but curiosity for new “unheard” musical experiences is.

This offer is suitable for groups of any age starting from school age.

The instrument builder Stefan Roszak shows how to build well-sounding instruments with just a few handfuls.

A total of 12 different musical instruments are created with the participants. Their mode of functioning, acoustic basics and historical background are explained in a comprehensible way. Finally the instruments will be played together in an improvisational orchestra.

In this workshop based on playful exercises in breathing, resonance and articulation, the participants experience their voice as a versatile sound instrument and develop their own catalog of unusual and experimental vocal expressions.

Using various improvisational concepts in space, we discover individual voice characters. In addition, the participants will learn various methods of how to develop and present vocal pieces from solo to choral.

• Warmups for voices using resonance and breathing exercises
• Discovery and development of individual voice characters
• Various forms of developing pieces and of playful dealing with concepts up to free improvisation
• Performances from solo to choral
• Improvisation with texts: When does text turn into sound and sound into text?

The workshop is open to singers, musicians, actors, and to all those who have a special interest in “voice”. Improvisation experience is a prerequisite.

In German and English language – whatever is needed.

Hearing the melody of movement, its silence and its noise – Amerta opens space for subtlety in movement

After an introduction to Amerta Movement last year, we are happy to offer a sequel.
Movement as an essential principle of vitality also interweaves our bodies as sound. Movement carries us far beyond ourselves as resonance and thus opens the field for communication and interaction.

In this seminar, we focus on the distinction between constellation, composition and context, as three basic ways of perceiving us in and referring with our environment. How can we explore this across the senses, hearing and feeling, vision and taste? Substance of contemplation in motion may then become, for example, the inner communion of touching and sounding, of sensation and melody.
 
The workshop is open to everyone, also for beginners!

Amerta Movement was initiated by the Indonesian movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo and developed further in a more than 30-year dialogue between Western and Eastern culture. Rooted in Javanese philosophy and meditation, Amerta Movement is a practice that cultivates a high sensitivity, openness and presence. Improvisation happens in a context in which we develop receptivity and awareness of the constellation and composition of the moment.

FELDENKRAIS is a method with which we can optimise our action sequences. It is used in dance, instrumental classes, acting, singing, to free playing from unnecessary tension, to organize movements more efficiently and thus improve performance.

It is a learning by movement and a learning by experience. In gentle, coordinated movement experiments we explore and harmonize movement.

After we have retuned the instrument “body”, we use the lightness and the changed kinesthetic feeling in the body to explore new and surprising ways of improvisation – with or without instrument, vocally or dance-wise.

Continuous course in German language. For details see German version.

Exploring sound generators, experimenting with sounds, making music without fear

Workshop in German language. For more details see German version.

Sunday 12 – 14 h, once a month, facilitator: Tayfun Guttstadt
Welcome to our monthly meeting for makam-based improvisation!
Once a month on Sunday, we will meet at noon to play and improvise together in a given makam or two for two full hours. The improvisation will be lead by Tayfun Guttstadt on the Ney. Theoretical aspects will be worked on, too, but the focus is on playing together and feel the mood of the respective makam. Typical forms of oriental music will also be introduced, everything by playing and feeling.

All instruments including voice and all levels welcome.  

Workshop in German language. For more details see German version.

Improvisation für strings – violin / viola / cello / double bass
and any other string instruments which can be played with bow

Saturday 11 – 14 h, once ay month from 25. February 2020

In German language. For details see German version.