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LIMA WORKSHOP SERIES 2022

LIMA Workshop Series 2022

Workshops in September / October/ November.  

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More workshops will be scheduled in 2023.

Check back here for details.

 

Creating Ambient Music

Saturday 24th September 2022

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

 

Improvisation for Young Musicians

This workshop has been postponed.

10 - 11.30am

Presented by Di Nailon and Suzanne Turner

Thrive Group - Outside School Hours Care 59D Amy Rd, Newstead

Tickets $5 per child on Eventbrite

 For ages 6 - 11 years.

This workshop will provide a number of starting points for exploring musical improvisation.  It offers an opportunity to step away from formal music making and notation and create music in the moment.  You can bring your own instrument from home (including any instruments that you have made!) or use the ones provided -  there will be lots to choose from. Participants and families will also have the opportunity to bring their improvisation skills to the Interweave Arts Organisation Remade event on 26th November and parade with LIMA musicians. 

 

Supported by City of Launceston

Integrated ArtsPlay by the River

Saturday October 8th 2022

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

Sunday October 9th 2022

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

Playing by Ear and Improvisation for Musicians Part 1

Sunday October 16th 2022

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

Making Music Together at Saturday Playgroup

Saturday October 29th 10- 11.30am

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.

How to Improvise Songs

THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED

 

How to Improvise Songs

 

Presented by Dwayne Baraka

Improvising any form of music is … tricky at the best of times.

Improvising words and music at the same time seems… almost impossible, no?

Join us as we give you tools to be confident to improve lyrics and melodic tunes at the same time.

You are much better at improvising lyrics and music than you estimate.  Let us prove it to you!

Supported by City of Launceston and Boags Brewery Experience

Playing by Ear and Improvisation for Musicians PART 2

THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN POSTPONED.

Presented by Karlin Love

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.

 

Supported by City of Launceston

She Sews Sounds

Sunday 13th November 2022

Presented by Rose Turtle Ertler

Sawtooth ARI, 58 Lindsay St, Launceston

FREE

Bookings Essential. Book on Humantix - Click on image for tickets.

Continuation of a female-artist project, MAPATAZI

Improvisation as a technique for making new pieces. This one will explore using the sounds of sewing machines with electric guitars (BYO). 

Suited to people who can play their instrument (more or less) or are confident to operate a sewing machine. In keeping with Mapatazi’s philosophy of encouraging women to reclaim space in the rock “n” roll world this is a women / girls only workshop. Stay on to share with an audience what we’ve made at LIMA’s Free For All session from 4-6pm. Invite your friends and family. 

BYO guitar / bass & amp (it doesn’t need to be a big loud amp, small is preferred.)  Sewing machines can be supplied (previous experience necessary) 
Booking for the workshop is essential - at checkout please let us know whether you will play guitar or sewing machine. 

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