Expanding horizons – ensemble improvisation on 20th-century classical music (video article)

This video article presents two pedagogical applications of the artistic research project Expanding horizons – improvisational explorations of 20th century classical music, a PhD project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. The project focuses on practical explorations of the application of improvisation to 20th-century Western classical music repertoires, in combination with qualitative methods such as autoethnography, participant-observation, and semi-structured interviews. The examples in the video demonstrate how approaches that are developed in the project can be applied in pedagogical situations, based on ensemble workshops with musicians of different musical orientations enrolled in music performance programmes in Sweden, one with university-level students in a bachelor programme and another with students at a folk high school. Video link: https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3012775