Led by practitioner Caroline Kraabel, a participatory improvisation workshop open to all abilities, levels of experience, and instruments.
Doors: 7pm. The workshop will begin at 7:30. Please don’t be late.
Improvisation workshop, led by practitioner Caroline Kraabel. This workshop is open to all abilities, levels of experience, and instruments. The workshop will focus on group improvisation, drawing from Kraabel's work with groups including ONe_Orchestra New and London Improvisers Orchestra.
Advance booking strongly advised as there are limited places. Whilst spaces are limited, no one is turned away for lack of funds, so please get in touch if you cannot afford a ticket via The Horse Hospital email: popculture@thehorsehopsital.com
Photo: Clement Kraabel
Caroline Kraabel (saxophone/voice) specialises in the challenging discipline of large-group free improvisation, founded on the equality of all participants. For individuals to have equal status and joy in improvisation, the freedom of each extends only to the ever-shifting points of the fruitful frontier at which it impinges on the next person’s. What awareness of power, responsibility, and limits will be necessary to make it possible for each of us to be equally free in our constantly evolving interactions?
How do we build individual confidence and collective trust to extend our exploration of sound to the greatest possible extent? Definitions and constraints relating to gender, race, class, sexuality, origins, money, etc. have been imposed on all of us – and indeed on musical forms – in order for those belonging to the ‘top’ categories to hoard prestige and power. We have all including those positioned at the top of these spurious hierarchies – been hurt by this. In our improvising, in our interplay of sounds and noises, let us treat each other as we would like to be treated, and avoid treating each other as we have been treated. This will open our ears to completely new sounds and musical structures as we use those confining experiences to make us more open, stronger, and better for each other: more curious, generous, confident, understanding, respectful, supportive, wild, brave, and free.
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