Pegamuse
Musicianship and Horsemanship: unbridled music
un projet pédagogique -Haute Ecole de musique Genève
HEM/HES-SO 2020-21
Dr. Maria Christina Cleary
Davide Monti
Emmanuelle Dupraz
Do you like horses? Do you like improvising music? Would you like to experience both together?
The educational model of a musician of the Renaissance and Baroque times was a humanistic one where a person could be a poet, a singer, a dancer, a fencer, an actor and a horse-rider. Such a broad education conceded each art to provide nutrition and creative inspiration for the other. However, most importantly, this enabled each person to live and breathe the physical experience of various disciplines within one lifetime.
This project postulates the question: by moving a horse with my music, can I “move” an audience?
As a “Renaissance” musician was also a horse-rider, how can the physicality of feeling and embodying a horse’s moves influence a musician today, and how can music influence a horse-rider? How could this experience alter the process of musicking, referring to notated and improvised music, the efficiency of communication in music, and aspects like rhythm and form? What serendipitous outcomes can result?
Based on historical sources (Caracciolo 1567, Fiaschi 1614, Schmelzer 1667), the objective of this project is to investigate the reciprocal influences and benefits between music and horse-riding with respect to empathic communication, rhythm and gesture, and creating an art form. The project will finish with a horse-ballet.
This is an optional trans-departmental 36 hour module, part of Bachelor and Master's Degrees
WHEN? 20-21 fév, 6-7 mars, 19 mars, 27 mars, 11 avril, 23-25 avril 2021
WHERE? Les Hauts de Corsinge, Chemin des Echaux 3-6, 1252 Meinier
Final performance on 25 avril 2021.