Living Scores Learn

Living Scores
Learn
Tom De Cock
Vincent Caers
[email protected]
www.living-scores.com/learn
• Introduction
• Living Scores Learn
• Phd Tom De Cock
• LS Learn
• Practical Example
• Philippe Hurel
• Future
Living Scores
Living Scores
• improving study of contemporary
music
• theoretical and practical solutions
• sharing experience
• preceded by doctoral research by
Tom De Cock
• Introduction
• Living Scores Learn
• Phd Tom De Cock
• LS Learn
• Practical Example
• Philippe Hurel
• Future
Improving the efficiency of practice and
performance of contemporary percussion
repertoire
Research Tom De Cock
Necessity for Research
• lowering the threshold for percussionists to tackle
major repertoire contemporary pieces by cataloguing
practical experience and knowledge into a new
working method
• lack of study-material and documented know-how
• problematic scores and electronics in the existing
repertoire
State of the Art
• thorough analysis of a selection of repertoire pieces
• “technical” recordings
• click tracks, also multi layered and “play along”
tracks
• annotated scores
• practical playing solutions
• collaborations with composers
Living Scores Learn
• web platform
• sharing research
• theoretical
• practical
• tools
• interaction
• Introduction
• Living Scores Learn
• phd Tom De Cock
• LS Learn
• Practical Example
• Philippe Hurel
• Future
Philippe Hurel
Loops-process
“Ce qui m’importe, c’est ce qu’il y a entre deux [formules], c’est à dire la
façon dont on y arrive et dont on en repart. Le résultat du processus ...
m’importe peu” - Philippe Hurel over Loops I
Philippe Hurel
Gérer l’Héterogène
• French composer (Ircam)
• spectralism + classical variation
• loops: repetition within
continuous transformation
• focus on process and
transparency
title
instrument
characteristics
structure
Loops I
flute solo
Introduction of the transformations
linear
3 parts
loops
Loops II vibraphone
solo
Loops
III
flute duo
Transformations return to a main motif
Introduction of the main motif
Influenced by specific instrumental techniques
Transformations return to - parts of - a previous period
Instrumental characteristics on the foreground of the composition
Loops marimba solo
Transformations are mirrored
IV
The process is subordinated to the instrumental timbre at specific
moments in the composition
Loops V
carillon
The process as an underlying principle for a continuous composition
network
circle
linear
continuous
Overview of the Transformations
parameter
constructive
regressive
melody
addition
diminution
melodic curve
fluent
capricious
rhythm
diminution / density raised
augmentation / density lowered
tempo
accelerando / fast
ritardando / slow
range
ascend
descend
ambitus
larger
smaller
dynamic
crescendo
diminuendo
Loops (II / IV)
• Introduction of a main motive
• 3 general loops with interior smaller loops
• each measure (group) is a step within the
transformation
• parameters change in two directions
• different structures
Practice Solutions
• annotated scores
• clicktrack
• temporelations
• complex meter structures
• sequencer
• auditive harmonic reference image
• play-along recording
• Introduction
• Living Scores Learn
• phd Tom De Cock
• LS Learn
• Practical Example
• Philippe Hurel
• Future
LS Learn Future
• Expanding content and participation
• integration into curricula at conservatories
• further practice-based R&D
• collaboration with different conservatories
(Brussel, Leuven, Oslo, Lissabon, Porto,
Weimar, Detmold, Barcelona, Tilburg)
• collaboration with performers and ensembles
• online archive and exchange