This thesis contextualises the portfolio of relevant works that Than van Nispen created during the period of his Master of Music studies from 2014 to 2016.The projects described involve interactive live instrumental music, which is the subject of the thesis, and the interactive music is mainly based on video-game music methods. The projects that do not have an interactive system for the music at least have a set of rules for play and interaction for, or with the music.A focus of this Master of Music studies is the exploration of solutions for interactive music, based on game music methods, with the use of traditional music notation.
Seeing improvisation as something that really needs its place in conservatoire training and education may be more or less ‘new’. However improvisation itself is of course not at all new and has existed since as long as we can remember. I will not go into that any further, it would take not a single address but a symposium of at least two weeks.
expressiveness, performance, musicians, skills, educationUsing the genre of Improvisational theatre as a basis, my research aims to design and develop instructional strategies that would help students enhance their expressive skills and achieve the flexibility to adapt their motor behavior to the musical piece. Embodying diverse characters and physicalities, as well as affective states or fictional realities through improv theatre exercises should enable them to expand their expressive range and, therefore, better convey their interpretation to their audience. Through this process, this study also seeks to gain an understanding of the effect this type of training may have on musicians' performance experience, as well as its implications in other areas of their development.