Event
Frozen Improvisations: Exploring Keith Humble at the Grainger in the 1960s
- Date: Sunday, 29 July 2018, 2 - 4pm
- Venue: Grainger Museum — University of Melbourne, Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC
- Tickets: This is a free event, however registration is required online
Event Details
Ensemble Density in collaboration with The Grainger Museum present a music workshop inspired by Keith Humble. Humble referred to his musical works as frozen improvisations because he regarded composition as an evolving creative process and exchange of ideas rather than the making of a finished product. In Saturday morning workshops at the Grainger Museum in the mid-1960s, he guided young people to improvise with voices, instruments and objects, and recordings of these sessions often formed the sonic building blocks for other pieces.
Following in the footsteps of Keith Humble, artistic director of Ensemble Density Charles MacInnes, presents this workshop, one of three, exploring Humble’s work at the Grainger Museum. Participants will also create their own improvised music, and the recorded results will be used in a performance of Humble’s Music for Monuments by Ensemble Density at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
Hosted by Ensemble Density director Charles MacInnes, percussionist Peter Neville, trumpeter and composer Barry McKimm, and guests.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured artists
- Presented by Charles MacInnes
- Presented by Barry McKimm
- Presented by Peter Neville
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