About
This is the course diary for Safety First: strategies towards minimizing danger in improvisation taught by Han-earl Park at the UCC Department of Music.
From the course description:
The art of improvisation may be something akin to the art of living: learning to improvise is to learn to be creative and to be social. But how can an improvisation be concise, interesting and entertaining while being spontaneous? How can an improviser take, as Steve Lacy said, “a leap into the unknown” safely?
We will engineer and negotiate strategies to help prepare the improviser in the context of experimental, non-idiomatic (pan-idiomatic or idiom-agnostic), open improvisation. In a creative, collaborative environment, and while practicing improvisation in small groups, we will examine and discuss approaches and topics including, for example, games, social organization and musical lexicons.
Open to any instrumental or vocal (or cargo-cult) musician. Prior experience of improvisation is desireable, but not necessary.
