In this episode, we invite listeners to discover a wonderful example of improvisational and experimental music education, encouraging students to try out practices such as collective improvisation, sound art performed by nonmusical objects, meditations inspired by deep listening, sound walks, field recordings, graphic and text scores etc.
Meet this wonderful collective "Spam" from the Music Faculty of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The word SPAM is a Greek acronym for experimental and improvisational music ensembles. This project was founded and is directed by Danae Stefanou, Associate Professor at the School of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
So what is it? At first glance, SPAM could be defined as a group of musicology and composition...
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