3.30 - 5pm

Presented by Karlin Love

Tasdance, 197 Wellington St, Launceston. Please note limited parking on site.

Tickets $20/$10 on Eventbrite

 

Improvising music for stillness: for meditation, contemplation, Taize prayer or chant, or chilled-out ambience.

Listening transformed into sound.

We’ll explore drone notes, breath-length rhythms, tension-release, harmonies and chord progression, and friendly modes. We’ll also consider how to be just interesting enough, so it’s neither boring or distracting. Bring your instrument or voice, and your ears.

Supported by City of Launceston

 

2 - 4pm Ages 16+

Presented by Di Nailon, Karlin Love, Suzanne Turner

317 Windermere Rd, Windermere

Tickets $20 / $10 on Eventbrite 

This workshop incorporates both visual art and improvised music making - choose 1 or both as the mood arises. Set on the eastern banks of Kanamaluka / Tamar River you have the opportunity to play with a range of media and music/sound to give form to what you see and hear in this idyllic setting. The workshop will make use of spaces such as an art studio, makers-shed and boat-shed to generate personal, collaborative and integrated arts experiences. The workshop is designed for practicing artists and those who would like the chance to have a go at music and visual art in a safe and supportive environment. Costs cover materials used for take-home inspirations and artistic memories.

 

Supported by City of Launceston.

Loop da Loop - Introduction to Looping in Performance

 

12 - 2pm Ages 16+

 

Presented by Ben Segal and Joel Roberts

 

Boags Wizard’s Retreat, 39 William St, Launceston

 

Tickets $20/$10 on Eventbrite.

 

Ben Segal and Joel Roberts each have a rich background in “proper” music making, but are also interested in exploring different forms of improvisation and sound enhancement technology.

This workshop will provide a brief explanation of the origins and history of “looping” from tape generated music to its place in the music of today.

We will show a range of solid state looping devices and software to fit any budget and give you an opportunity to go sound hunting and build a group soundtrack.

Take a break at Boags then join LIMA regulars at Free for All at Sawtooth ARI (4 - 6pm) for an improvised performance by Ben and Joel.

 

Supported by City of Launceston

2 - 3.30pm

Presented by Karlin Love

Boags Wizards Retreat 39 William St Launceston

 

Tickets $20/ $10 on Eventbrite. 

You've been playing your instrument for years; you're pretty good at reading and you can even play some fairly hard pieces. But you're at that family party where self-taught Uncle Joe is reeling off popular hits from the past 50 years, and they ask you to join in, and you don't have any music and the right notes just won't come out. The family doesn't get it - you've been practicing all these years and you can't do this? Can you even do Happy Birthday without the music or jam on the blues? 

 

These workshops are about adding to your skillset, using what you already know from reading and connecting it more directly to your ears and muscles so you can develop your ability to play by ear and improvise. There will be two sessions so you can try the ideas from the first one and we can build on them (or troubleshoot) in the second.

 

Karlin Love learned piano, clarinet and guitar when she was young. Playing by ear and improvising came easily on guitar, but she had to really work to be able to do it on clarinet. She's been helping classically-trained musicians enter the improvisation world for quite a few years now and has accumulated a few tricks and insights that might just work for you, too.

 

Supported by City of Launceston

A FREE Children’s Week activity, this is an opportunity for families to engage in creative music making together.  Explore sound, try out LIMA’s Free for All group music making in the moment and gather ideas for music making at home.