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

Presented by Dwayne Baraka

Boags Wizard Retreat, 39 William St Launceston.

 $20/$10. Tickets Eventbrite

 

 Lots of musicians have identified as being in a flow state.  The state of “being” where you are improvising and barely even aware of what you are doing. Rap is a powerful medium in which you can explore the flow state. By taking away the melodic aspects, you are free to explore how your deepest inner being can guide you to make lyrics and create profound narratives! We will give you a safe space to explore your flow, your glow and your knowing insights. 

Supported by City of Launceston

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

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

How to Improvise Songs

2 - 4pm

Presented by Dwayne Baraka

Boags Wizard Retreat, 39 William St Launceston. 

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