Come get inspired and learn the music of our time!
Come get inspired and learn the music of our time!
The annual Summer Academy of the Time of Music festival to be arranged this year 1–6th of July offers unique opportunities to study music of our time under the guidance of world-famous tutors in an inspiring and international environment.
The unifying themes of the course programme this year are collaborative creation and aesthetically diverse contents, while offering a wide array of approaches to composing and performing.
Take a look at the detailed course descriptions below and apply by 9th (“Olde Skool” course) or 23rd March!
Olde Skool: Calling all Duos, Pianists and Composers
Tutors: composer Matthew Shlomowitz and pianist Mark Knoop
This course invites emerging pianists, instrumental duos and composers to come together to create new works and talk about music together. Performers should either be solo pianists or an established duo of any instrumental combination. Through the conventional process of composers writing for performers, the course will examine the relationship between composer and interpreter. All tastes and persuasions are welcomed, from high-modern to hyper-pop, refined to trashy. Shlomowitz and Knoop are distinguished tutors: Shlomowitz teaches at University of Southampton, and on courses such as Impuls and Darmstadt Summer Courses. Knoop teaches at London’s Guildhall School of Music. The two lead the Plus Minus Ensemble with Vicky Wright.
Laboratory of Not-knowing
Tutors: composer, performer and instrument maker Simon Løffler and percussionist Jennifer Torrence
This course of co-creative processes is open for composers, musicians, composer-performers, and other artists working with sound / silence / performance. The course is a participant-led space to experiment with each other in the development of ideas / materials / works. Løfflers internationally acclaimed work is based on prolonged developmental processes that develop alternative instrumental practices exploring the mechanics of the body. Much of Torrences work is built upon extended collaborative processes with composers / musicians and with artists from diverse practices, in the so called “expanded field” of music. She is Associate Professor II of Percussion at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
Expanded practices of field recording
Tutors: installation artist and composer Claudia Molitor and choreographer-curator Anna Koch
What is the notion of field recording today? What is a recording? What is recording? And what would you use to record, the body, your senses, a microphone, a pencil…?
In this course, the notion of field recording will be expanded and challenged. In small groups that will change every day, participants will develop responses to various ideas. In addition to composers, the course is open to artists of many fields working with sound. The tutors Claudia Molitor and Anna Koch have significant, rich experience in multidisciplinary and experimental fields of art. Molitor is a lecturer at the City St George university in London, and Koch is the artistic director of the WELD in Stockholm.