Live-Elektronik in performative Kontexten” challenges participating students to explore a spectrum of personal, physical expression in partnership with sound and music. Art often arises as a response to something, and in the context of this course we explore the dynamic relationship between the body in response to sound/music, and vice versa. When considering how to engage more directly within their work, students are asked to take risks to develop a deeper relationship with their instincts. In the course, we will use these instincts as a guide to arriving at artistic decisions, and refine our own sensibility towards how harmony and dissonance resonate between sound and movement.
Performance is a loaded term. Instead of thinking about “performance” as a form of acting or pretending, students are encouraged to apply this in a way that reveals who they are. Throughout the course, specific exercises and goals will prompt reflection upon one’s own physical archive of experiences that already exist within the body and memory. Students are advised to be present and to use themselves as a direct instrument in order to deepen access to their intuitive impulses. By tapping into this, “Live-Elektronik in performative Kontexten” aids participating students in cultivating their ability to physically and readily manifest ideas, experiences and information in both their performative and audio compositional work.
