Performance Making

Performance Making: each
Composer: Leak Graeme

Graeme Leak is a performer/teacher who has conducted workshops at educational institutions and festivals around Australia. He takes a fresh approach to musical learning by using the body as a performance instrument. It’s a technique that defies the constraints of more conventional ways of learning music which focus on a particular instrument or style. Based on extensive experiences as a musicians and teacher, Leak’s unique ‘performance-making’ process builds musical skills and imagination, transforming students into composer-performers. This book shows how to run a performance-making workshop (everything from setting up a workspace to managing group dynamics), and provides a wide range of warm-up techniques and challenging excercises on pulse, metre, rhythm, tone timbe and more! Performance-making workshops encourage participants to: * explore the building blocks of music; * experience the physical and theatrical possibilities of music; and create exciting group performance pieces.