How is music created? What happens in the mind and body of the sound creator when improvising? How do instinct, intellect, identity, emotion and experience combine in improvisation? How does a performer recreate an already composed piece of music in performance? What can we take away from improvisation for our everyday lives?
Villa Seligmann’s first pocket festival* on the theme of “Adventure Improvisation – A World of Unlimited (Musical) Possibilities” from November 7 to 9, 2024 will address these questions. The festival consists of concert encounters, lectures, request concerts, workshops and free improvisations. At the heart of the encounters is the art of improvisation as an interface between identification, cultural heritage and experience.
Improvisation is a special kind of music-making in which composition and performance are combined in real time. It is also a basic component of historical performance practice and as such a primary source of music creation.
Improvisation can arise in all historical styles and musical genres. It is a matter of instinct, imagination, but also of experience and intellect.
Improvisation is above all a philosophy of life that consists of freedom of expression and form. Experiencing them in concert is a unique experience: we hear the music for the first time and at the same time witness the creative process.
In a creative and thoroughly informal setting, a comprehensive picture will be given of the physics, technique and manual skills through to the philosophy and abstraction of improvisation.
Among the invited artists and speakers are Prof. Noam Sivan (Stuttgart/Israel), Prof. Markus Becker, Prof. Dr. Eckart Altenmüller, Prof. Roman Rofalski (Hanover) as well as Maria I. J. Reich, Ido Ramot, Marina Baranova and Damian Marhulets.
The participants also include students as well as the general public, who are not necessarily musically trained, and who can not only listen, but also take part in an open exchange of ideas and express their musical wishes.
The Taschen Festival is therefore not only aimed at musicians, but also at anyone who wants to gain an insight into this world of unlimited musical possibilities.
“Pocket festival” is a term borrowed from the English (pocket festival).
It refers to the small format (mini festival) of the event, but also symbolizes the unexpected, surprising, unsuspected things that you can find in your own pockets.
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