WORKSHOP​

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As in politics, the body is the start of everything. Without a body, there are no possibilities to play music or create a sound. Even to push a knob you need a body. In this workshop we observe our bodies through musical gestures and try to minimize the boundaries between us and our instruments. 

We will also observe our instruments, one by one as well as within collective practices. You will be asked to “deconstruct” your instrument and use it as you have never used it before. We’ll focus on small parts, for example strings, neck, body, volume knob, keys, bow, snare spring etc., and see them as instruments on their own, which we can connect in different ways. 

On the basis of our findings we’ll improvise - not as a practice of making something new every time (that’s not really possible), but in a way that we will be able to communicate through sound, dynamics and form. Improvisation will be established as a language where space and time flow freely through our sound-body.