MEME Ensemble: Sound To Color Improvisation

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Improvisation is more than just spontaneous creation, it is a sustained practice of thinking, making, and sensing otherwise. In this ensemble course, we will explore how we can make sense of ourselves, each other, and our environment through improvisation and collaborative performance. Students will explore contemporary and historical approaches to improvisation across multiple modalities, including but not limited to music, dance, writing, visual art, theater, and social/community practice. Classes will focus on readings, discussions, and sensory improvisation exercises. This will be a highly collaborative class where we will become creative researchers who collectively shape our class experience and artistic output. This highly collaborative framework using improvisation, mixed with research and writings on synesthesia, and more specifically chromesthesia, will be our foundation throughout the semester. The course culminates in a presentation of works devised and performed by the ensemble.