Course 2

Improvisation II – Improvisation and Music Creation in the 21st Century: Shaping a Personal Musical Style by Prof. Franz Danksagmüller

Dates: July 20-24 (1st week)

Description
This workshop is aimed at musicians working with the organ – organists, composers, and church musicians – who wish to further develop their artistic identity through contemporary approaches to improvisation. It focuses on today’s musical languages, the expressive potential of live electronics, and a broad range of creative tools: graphic scores, historical music used as a flexible point of departure, repetitive music, loops and drones, video scoring, and algorithmic concepts. The workshop also invites composers interested in exploring the organ as a contemporary instrument and collaborative partner. Its aim is to open new artistic perspectives and support the development of individual modes of expression. Central to the workshop are key questions: What constitutes a personal musical style, and how can it be consciously shaped and refined?

This course can not be combined with:
[7b] Organ repertoire from the Italian baroque period (Tomadin)

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About Franz Danksagmüller
Franz Danksagmüller studied organ, composition and electronic music in Vienna, Linz, Saarbrücken and Paris. From 1999 to 2005 he was organist and composer of the cathedral of Sankt Pölten (Austria).
In his music Franz Danksagmüller likes to combine acoustic sounds with live electronics. Franz Danksagmüller repeatedly collaborated with scientists, for example from CERN in Geneva, looking for ways to use data as the starting point for a musical journey.
Together with saxophonist Bernd Ruf, he recently presented buxtehude_21, in which the two musicians bridged the gap between Baroque music and live electronics. Since 2005 Franz Danksagmüller has been associated with the Musikhochschule Lübeck.