It's sonic bath dayyyy! From free improvisation to deep listening: a recorder player in search of the powers of sound

Marguerite Maire

About this exposition

Free improvisation came to me little by little but always surely. One day, it became a starting point to access musicianship skills that I wouldn't have been able to access through any other "entry point".  As an early music musician, experimental practices were very new to me. The topic was not much discussed in my surroundings and the search was on me.   Never before in my life as a musician have I been invited to listen so much, as when I started practicing free improvisation: to the stories of others, to the people I was playing with, to the sounds of the world. I discovered listening as a source of inspiration, but also as a way to navigate my environment, and most of all, to care for each other.   Then came the wish to share these feelings. There, I decided to create a workshop, where the participants could become aware and explore their sonic environment.  This research documents the process of exploring tools to create a music workshop, diving into the ocean of free improvisation, to end up in the sea of deep listening. This experience changed me forever, as a musician but also as a human being. 

type	research exposition
keywords	free improvisation, deep listening, environmental awareness, recorder, Musique concrète, Music Education, collaborative practice
date	22/10/2024
published	14/07/2025
last modified	14/07/2025
status	limited publication
copyright	Marguerite Maire
license	All rights reserved
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3095852/3164214
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	3. Internal publication

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