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Improvisation Workshops

Free improvisation as it is taught and practised in the workshop is as open as possible. I act as a kind of facilitator, directing the group according to the information I get directly during the practice; a real process is put in place. Every sound, every noise, every action becomes significant. The notions of right and wrong traditionally associated with musical practice are naturally called into question. Anything can potentially be music, and everyone has the ability to improvise freely, with or without musical experience, using an instrument, objects, movements or voice. The aim is to develop a quality of listening to oneself, to others and to the situation on which the construction of the musical discourse will be based.

Jonas Kocher has led workshops at the Tbilisi Conservatory, the Sound (Dis)obedience Festival Ljubljana, the Musik Akademie Basel, among others.


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