Our set bears the above title for several reasons: we record sound (field recordings, sound design) with portable (or not) recording devices both in rehearsals and in concerts (we learn how to use ZOOM H4N and talk about the audio editor Audacity and DAW’s: Ableton Live, GarageBand but also apps for android, iOS), we keep the possible album covers prepared (as photos) for the ECM tribute concert and both image capture and recording of moving image is encouraged, we invest moving image with original and/or improvised music, which we also capture, we talk about music notation software (musescore, aered), we capture sound in graphic scores (see the photocopy with Cage, Feldman, Cardew, Takemitsu, Eno) and finally about whatever meaning each student wants to give to the word!
Each year we set a goal, a basic concept on which we base our work. We did a tribute to ECM, we worked on the soundtrack of a silent film, we set the basis for a dialogue of music 1) with time (working with a philologist and a visual artist of our school) and, in the same context, 2) with the mountains (with the same philologist and a fellow pianist).
Next stops will be music and sport (endurance, marathon, triathlon) and songs (Cave, Harvey, Buckley, Cinematic Orchestra), as well as the relationship between music and light. The ensemble consists of students from the first grades of high school to the last grades of high school and there is no required level (nor audition process!) for participation as it is made so that with techniques such as controlled improvisation, minimalist approach, sound design, potential members are not excluded due to level.
Videos
Music and time: The dimension of time in musical-artistic expression
Music teacher: Dimitris Tasoudis