The RSH improvisation class.

I think this collective improvisation in response to unusual circumstances merits being heard in its entity, mind struggling and flying in the end. In the end we all are free to become whatever we want. We want to become human, after all. 

Sometimes, language creates borders. But music somehow, difficultly, crosses borders. These records here certainly cross many borders. It is, for example absolutely not clear who composed this work, it magically composed itself. It wanted to come out. Everybody is free to contribute. In any way he, she wants.

This was an extraordinary emotional and artistic experience. I want to say thanks to (and please, remember the names!!!)

Yun-fei Li, Yue Ma, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, voice
Yi-yin Chien, flute 
Bo Kyung Kim, clarinet 
Zhaoqi Zhang, bassoon 
Yun-fei Li, Tue Ma, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, voice
Mao Hong, violine and Guzheng
Loh May, viola
Matthias Balzat, Ella Kliski, violoncello
Dennis Pientak and Jean Hommel, double bass

Me, electronics, mixing, synthesiser.

In these times

Online improvisation with members of my improvisation course at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. Dennis Pientak (Double Bass) improvised based on my "Curtis revisited", Yunfei Li added her voice, followed by Jean Hommel (double bass), Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (voice), Bo Kyung Kim (clarinet), Yi-Chuang Yang (trumpet) and Yue Ma (voice). additional tracks (synthesizers) + mixing + producing, Hubertus Dreyer. The recordings took place between April 21 and 27 and in Germany, Russia, China, Taiwan and Korea, so I think it could be called a global response to a global situation…

improvisation course at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, online improvisation, part II.

Please watch also the video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8CtatKpBfA

More relaxed than part I, somewhere in dream country, with a few coins tossed at the beginning and the end asking for the next turn of events.

Voice – Yünfei Li. Flute – Yi-yin Chen. Bassoon – Zhaoqi Zhang. Guzheng – Mao Hong. Violoncello and coins – Matthias Balzat. Additional effects + mixing + producing, Hubertus Dreyer. – Hubertus Dreyer.

The image shows a graphic representation of our discussion before engaging in the recordings.

In these times II

Improvisation online at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Part 3. Bo Kyung Kim, clarinet, Yue Ma, voice, Ella Kiiski, violoncello; additional tracks (synthesizers) + mixing + producing, Hubertus Dreyer.

lyrics

I wonder why my inlaid harp has fifty strings,
Each with its flower-like fret an interval of youth.
...The sage Chuangzi is day-dreaming, bewitched by butterflies,
The spring-heart of Emperor Wang is crying in a cuckoo
Mermen weep their pearly tears down a moon-green sea,
Blue fields are breathing their jade to the sun....
And a moment that ought to have lasted for ever
Has come and gone before I knew.

锦瑟无端五十弦
一弦一柱百思华年度
庄生晓梦迷蝴蝶
望帝春心托杜鹃
沧海月明珠有泪 
蓝田日暖玉内生烟容
此情可待成追忆
只是当时已惘然

In these times III

Next instalment of the RSH improvisation course, featuring Ekaterina Zhurasvskaya, voice; Yi-Yin Chien, flute, Bo Kyung Kim, clarinet; Yi-Chuan Yang, trumpet; Jia-Hua Feng, trombone; Matthias Balzac, violoncello; Jean Hommel and Dennis Pientak, double bass; additional tracks (synthesizers) + mixing + producing, Hubertus Dreyer.

In these times 4

The RSH impro-course has a new account, please check it out if you happen to like the music presented here:

https://soundcloud.com/rsh-improkurs

In these times

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