|Keywords:||improvisation, piano, schumann|
|Duration:||Started in 2013|
|Period:||19th century music, 21st century music|
|Host institution:||Leiden University|
This artistic research project exposes Robert Mitchell's attempts to layer musical materials from the core of the classical piano repertoire - in this case, materials from scores and sketches of Robert Schumann - to create ever increasingly larger spaces in which improvisatory practice at the piano can take place.
The research constists of the following steps:
Step 1: Choose strands of musical materials: melodies, harmonic patterns, figurative patterns, etc.
Step 2: Layer these pieces of 'debris' in unforeseen ways and realize the result through pianistic practice.
Step 3: Evaluate the sounding results and repeat the process with a conscious awareness of processing musical materials in a way that increasingly bears my own sonic signature.