How does one exercise improvisation? Helena Gaunt and Bart van Rosmalen have developed a way of beginning they call the Stravinsky exercise: start playing using only a few notes, a single pattern, and the methods of variation. Bart van Rosmalen: “It is like meeting someone saying: ‘Hi how are you, where do you come from?’ It is musical chitchat.” The result is becoming more aware of your influence on any communicative situation. It opens up the possibilities for conversation to happen.
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