Schillinger composition workshop clips.mov

You are listening to the results of an extraordinary musical experiment.
During the morning of the 19th September, 9 composers of widely varying age and experience, were introduced to some key Schillinger rhythm techniques. None of the participants were Schillinger experts and in addition they had only one hour to independently compose phrases for the different instruments of a jazz trio.
You are listening to the results of an extraordinary musical experiment.
During the morning of the 19th September, 9 composers of widely varying age and experience, were introduced to some key Schillinger rhythm techniques. None of the participants were Schillinger experts and in addition they had only one hour to independently compose phrases for the different
instruments of a jazz trio. This was quite a challenge, so there were some rules:
all the compositions were to be either 7 or 8 bars, according to the techniques used;
to avoid pitch problems (when the different compositions were played simultaneously) all parts were to be in the key of C major. When the performers had arrived and were ready to play, the independently composed parts were shuffled and given out to the band. Even though each part of the score was written by a different composer,the parts that belonged to the same rhythmic family (7 or 8) worked in any combination. Particular selections of the compositions were sequenced by the participants to make a stream of high quality music.
Of course, I knew it would work that way because the system guarantees coherence and coordination but once again I was surprised and excited by the results.
The clips presented here are just some of the excellent music that was produced that day. In each case the band sightreadsthe music, repeating each bar group several times before launching into spontaneous improvisations on the written compositions.
Everyone was delighted by this proof-of the-pudding and there was no doubting that the techniques had not only worked but had stimulated the creativity of each composer.
Everyone was delighted by this proof-of the-pudding and there was no doubting that the techniques had not only worked but had stimulated the creativity of each
composer.

Jeremy Arden 19/2010

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Schillinger
• composition
• music
• production

[TEMAOHI2787]

I hope you will post MANY more Schillinger video's. I have both of his "thick" books.

[danielleosimpson]

Way to go!

Daniel Léo Simpson

Composer

San Francisco

[theinvisiblemic]

I was one of the composers too and I think I'm in for an extraodinary musical adventure

[cloadbuster]

I am one of the 8 composers... and like the result, thanks for the musicians, the improvisation worked very well