Cello | Improvisation | Workshops | Sound & Composition
Hannah Marshall
photograph by Julian Richards
photograph by Peter Gannushkin
https://downtownmusic.net/
'OUT OF THE BOX'
Workshops in Free Improvisation
- a game where the dice direct what happens next -
"Fun, serious, deep and light-hearted"
The dice guide
us to 100's of playful
provocations for group creativity.
This workshop game suits
all who want to explore
freely improvised music
in groups.
"I left the
session feeling
fulfilled, heartened
and rather joyful.
It was all a
real treat!"
"...The box game
has definitely changed my conceptions of how to make and experience music...
It was cathartic and I feel
as though I’ve seen
(and heard) a whole
different world"
" I particularly enjoyed the randomness of the dice throw..."
"Excellent
workshop,
lots of playing,
lots of learning.
A joy!"
If you would like to book or experience this workshop for your community, school, festival or college
please write me a message and I'll get back to you
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
'Out of the Box' is a practical deep dive into free improvisation, for instrumentalists and vocalists, delving into strategies and simple instruction pieces that engage group improvisation, harnessing the use of chance-based approaches like dice & cards as the means to navigate our way through hundreds of ways to play together freely.
Out of The Box is a game through which the participants explore borrowed, original and collected instructions & instigations, brought together over 20+ years. The workshop can take cues from composers (such as La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Webern, and Cornelius Cardew), and can investigate areas such as Search & Reflect and Conduction, as well as adapt to different approaches to 'free' playing taken from our everyday surroundings in an organic and playful way, where the dice, cards, boxes and chance leads what happens next.
Participants gain experience and insight and reflection into their own unconscious approaches to play and listening, affecting and creating the group - as well as finding inspiration in music making and composition along the way.
Playing a game frees the direction and content of the workshop away from a 'leader', or 'teacher', to become an interaction of timings and synchronicity , inner and outer, you and me. The game encourages participants to notice what the present moment brings, and how they react to it. This approach takes the pressure off, and invites the participants to simply trust in what the universe is guiding them to do. 'Out of The Box' aims to make space to develop tools for listening, to help personal creative practice, shake-up stale approaches, or allow new ideas to bubble up, whether those be musical, or otherwise.
The workshop is guided by Hannah, who can explain or clarify the game as it unfolds, if that is what's needed.
Material and resources that inform the game have been generated through experiences performing improvised music in the Uk and abroad, collaborating in theatre, working in education, community music, working with artists and composers, training in western classical music and investigating philosophical/spiritual practices.
Hannah is an experienced and inclusive facilitator, having held many creative spaces with people of all ages and abilities, and has taken workshops is group Improvisation, theatre, music and art & sensory sounds and stories.
For a CV detailing Hannah's past experience and training in teaching and participation please go HERE