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Further training: Improvisation and improvisation pedagogy 17.12.2021

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Friday, 17. 12. 2021 | 18:00 - Sunday, 19. 12. 2021 | 15:00
Peter Jarchow & guests

Improvisers North Wales Paid caretakers for free ensemble improvisation meetings.

Organisation: Improvisers North Wales an organisation that supports free ensemble improvisation.

Retreat : Wales : 2022

Retreat:Wales 2022! Aims to take you to a peaceful place in Wales, rural and remote, where in solitude or in the presence of a community, artists can refresh and renew their engagement with the nature and practice of free ensemble improvisation in music and thought

Retreat and introduction

Start up year 2013, The target year for retreat one, was 2017 now it is 2022
Location: is North Wales
Target practioners is international - cross platform - multi - discipline,
Curaters & project managers are
- Phillip Morton - Liverpool:UK -
- To be confirmed: Improvisers North Wales
Project management style duplicates Improvisers North wales constitution.
With thanks for the work and support at the start phase in 2013 by Emma Louis. North wales
Start up funding : Arts Council Wales, thank you!

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This article was unpublished in 2018. Progress came to a stand still, static. Then in 2021 as an unexpected outcome and consequence of COVID-19 and the software ZOOM I speculate there has been an increase in connectivity, networking, communication and social discourse between improvisers. This new connectivity could form the constituency of interest that makes the relaunch of `retreats for improvisers` a viable and realistic proposal..
Phil Morton commends this to the house of the commons.

creative content

Not all activities carried out by individuals or groups in the genre or practice of `free improvisation` are free ensemble improvisations,

Examples of interference with the practice of free improvisation are.

Compositions,
scores,
graphic scores,
games,
exercises,
text pieces,
writen text instructions.

P Morton has come to adopt a term used by others: referential, in an attempt to categorise this list of methods that tresspass into the world of free improv. Referential simply means the improviser is required to refer to an external referent, that maybe a document or idea that influences what the person does within the parameters of music.

Here is a proposed list of what may happen at a Retreat.

Unmetered free ensemble improvisation - the duration, and therefore the end of the piece is not known when the piece begins
Metered free ensemble improvisation - the duration, and therefore the end of the piece is known when the piece begins
System 50:50
gathering concept
Noise upstairs concept.

Related: awaiting further citation

Free ensemble improvisation is not created it creates itself, it is self generating, the act of listening enables this to happen. (Summary of T Nunn)

Venue requirements

Full list to follow

Essential

Two performance , rehearsal spaces.
Accomodation
- Either on site or within 30 minutes drive of the location
- The accomodation is likely to be a mixture of
  - Camping
  - Private rooms hosted by the venue
  - Private rooms at an external location.
Electricity & heating.
Food : notes to follow,