Exercises and Resources
Exercises that do not have names attached to them have been developed by students and myself or have evolved out of our work with other musicians (a resource list follows)
Kinesthetic Solfege.pdf (by Jeffrey Newberry)
Football (from R. Murray Schafer, appears in Hearsing)
Sounds in a Circle (from R. Murray Schafer, appears in Hearsing)
Passing Names (from R. Murray Schafer, appears in Hearsing)
Graphic Score (from R. Murray Schafer, appears in Hearsing)
Chances Are No.1 (by Sydney Hodkinson, appears in A Contemporary Primer for Band)
Music To Dancing (by Dwight Schenk)
Songwriting Exercise (by David Celia)
Wingspan (submitted by Chris Dadge)
Two John Stevens Exercises (submitted by Chris Dadge)
Massive Chords with Drum Machine (by Paul Linklater)
Zoom, Schwartz, Profigliano (camp game shown to us by Nick Didkovsky)
Eye contact - full ensemble (shown to us by Nick Didkovsky)
Large Group Spontaneous Chord Progressions and Orchestration (Doug Friesen)
Soundtrack Challenge (Doug Friesen and Maria Reidstra)
There are so many amazing exercises that other musicians and educators have shown me. Here are a few of the many amazing books full of ideas that I have found inspiring (please send me ones you think should also appear here):
Schafer, R. Murray Hearsing and A Sound Education
ear cleaning and creative music exercises
Stevens, John Search and Reflect
rhythm and improvisation games and exercises (hard to find in North America, I ordered mine from here)
Boal, Augusto Games for Actors and Non-Actors
amazing drama exercises, many using sound
Oliveros, Pauline Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice
deep/meditative composing preparation exercises
Nachmanovitch, Steven Free Play
Mathieu, W. A. The Listening Book
Clark, Dave How to Conduct Yourself
a good collection of hand signals with great pictures