Originally Posted by
straycat
There's a gorgeous Serge Gainsbourg track called 'Angoisse', which I first heard at a musicality workshop. When it was first played to us, I thought "that's nice" - nothing more. The teacher then analysed the track with us, replaying various sections and telling us what to listen out for. She then demonstrated various ways of interpreting those sections she'd hilighted. She got us to sit, close our eyes, listen and interpret with different body parts (head, hands, arms, feet, whatever we felt like). She got us to try specific things with a partner. She got us to make up new things with a partner.... and so on. She had everyone in a very open, receptive, almost trance-like state at times, and at the end of the process, I think all of us loved that track to distraction, and were listening to it, dancing to it , innovating to it in ways and with a creativity that we never anticipated when we first heard it.
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