For musicians, artists, composers, researchers, and advanced students interested in developing individual approaches to sound, performance, listening, and artistic research
.Workshops and mentorships are tailored to the interests and experience of participants and may be offered as individual sessions, masterclasses, university workshops, ensemble coaching, artistic research seminars, or intensive project-based laboratories.
Contemporary Saxophone Practice
Developing an individual artistic practice through the saxophone.
Sound production and timbre
Tone beyond stylistic categories
Endurance and duration
Extended instrumental techniques
Alternative approaches to virtuosity
The saxophone as a compositional tool
Improvisation & Spontaneous Composition
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Approaches to real-time composition and collaborative performance
Listening strategies
Ensemble interaction and collective decision-making
Interactive forms and structures
Long-duration performance
Solo and collective improvisation
Embodied Performance
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Exploring the relationship between body, instrument, attention, and sound
Breath
Gesture and mobility
Presence and attention
The body as interface
Performance as embodied practice
Graphic & Moving Scores
Working with alternative systems of notation and instruction.
Interpretation of graphic scores
Creation of scores and performance systems
Animated and moving notation
Text-based performance instructions
Poetic Logics
Non-linear approaches to musical form
Saxophone & Electronics
Integrating acoustic and electronic approaches to performance.
Live processing
Feedback systems
Amplification
Self-built instruments
Digital tools for improvisers and composers
Sound Art & Interdisciplinary Practice
Performance beyond traditional concert settings.
Installation and immersive environments
Site-specific work
Performance environments
Collaboration with visual and conceptual artists
Transdisciplinary approaches to sound
Artistic Research
Developing artistic questions through
practice-based research methods
Documentation and reflection
Project development
Research through making
Developing an individual artistic language
Listening strategies
Ensemble interaction and collective decision-making
Interactive forms and structures
Long-duration performance
Solo and collective improvisation
Breath
Gesture and mobility
Presence and attention
The body as interface
Performance as embodied practice
Interpretation of graphic scores
Creation of scores and performance systems
Animated and moving notation
Text-based performance instructions
Poetic Logics
Non-linear approaches to musical form
Live processing
Feedback systems
Amplification
Self-built instruments
Digital tools for improvisers and composers
Sound Art & Interdisciplinary Practice
Performance beyond traditional concert settings.
Installation and immersive environments
Site-specific work
Performance environments
Collaboration with visual and conceptual artists
Transdisciplinary approaches to sound
Artistic Research
Developing artistic questions through
practice-based research methods
Documentation and reflection
Project development
Research through making
Developing an individual artistic language
Documentation and reflection
Project development
Research through making
Developing an individual artistic language