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ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΙΑΣ

«ΑΥΤΟΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΜΟΣ ΩΣ ΠΡΑΚΤΙΚΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΤΖΑΖ»

Διδασκαλία

Δημήτρης Βασιλάκης 
http://www.dimitriosvassilakis.com
https://dimitriosvassilakis.academia.edu

Στόχοι:

Το μάθημα στοχεύει στο να διδάξει θεωρητικά και πρακτικά την τέχνη του τζαζ αυτοσχεδιασμού σε όλες τις μορφές και τεχνοτροπίες.
Οι φοιτητές θα μάθουν να αυτοσχεδιάζουν στις βασικές φόρμες της τζαζ, θα πειραματιστούν με ελεύθερο αυτοσχεδιασμό, με εθνικά ιδιώματα, σύγχρονα ρεύματα, τεχνητή νοημοσύνη.
Στο θεωρητικό επίπεδο θα διδαχτούν την ιδέα και την αναγκαιότητα του αυτοσχεδιασμού σαν μια τέχνη παρόμοια με την αυθόρμητη πρόζα στην λογοτεχνία, τον χορό και το θέατρο.
Θα προσεγγίσουν διαφορετικές σχολές και κατευθύνσεις θα προετοιμαστούν για ανάλυση εκ βαθέων της γλώσσας της τζαζ, ενώ απαραίτητη προϋπόθεση η γνώση της τζαζ αρμονίας σε ψηλό επίπεδο.
Τέλος στο πρακτικό επίπεδο θα αναλύσουν την πρόοδό τους με ηχογραφημένα παραδείγματα και θα δια-δράσουν με τον διδάσκοντα και μεταξύ τους σε αυτοσχεδιαστικές συνομιλίες.

Goals:

On this series of lectures, the aim is to teach the art of improvisation from the basic jazz forms to advanced concepts.

Also to interact with artificial intelligence, and connect with other art forms such as poetry, prose, visuals and dance.

As a prerequisite student will need to be on an advanced level regarding jazz harmony.

For the lesson’s projects students will transcribe solos from the jazz repertoire and will compose, analyse and perform their own improvisations.

Lesson plan:

Intro:

1 Theoretical background of improvisation, bibliography and an analytical harmony draft paper.

2 The concept of improvisation as storytelling. 

Developing a personal voice, imitation and originality.

Scat singing, drum skills and explanation of swing and related time feels.

Related literature.

Core:

3 Blues (bebop major and minor blues, use of hard bop vocabulary).

4 Rhythm changes (from basic approach to Eternal Triangle changes).

5 Standards 1 (American songbook, to Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk).

6 Standards 2 (hard bop, Giant Steps changes, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock).

7 Modal (Miles Davis, John Coltrane).

8 Free and collective improvisation.

Advanced:

9 Jazz idiomatic, Linear and Vertical, the Sonny Rollins linear thematic development concept versus Coltrane vertical sheets of sound and spiritual approach.

10 Recoding phrases and solos by the students to assess their development in assimilating the language, imagination and creativity.

11 Interaction with AI systems, using DYCI2, Omax, mirror and other experimental applications and algorithms to create a sonic landscape and converse with fragmented material.

12 Connection of jazz improvisation with spoken word, visual arts, dance and other art forms for multi-performances.

Assignements:

• Progress project: Before the advanced sessions the assessment will consist of one written solo composed by the students on 3 choruses of blues or on 1 chorus of rhythm changes. Additionally, a short 2 page analyses of their improvisation with references to styles and players. 
  
  
• Final project: A 10-page assignment at the end of the semester will focus on analysing and comparing 2 contrasting solos from the repertoire with historical, musicological, statistical, stylistic analyses, bibliography and original ideas to contribute to the research area.

 

REFERENCES: (historic, biography, instrumental, discography, harmony, research papers, technology, analyses, fiction, literature).

Analyses: 

Cook, A Guide to Musical Analysis, OUP, 1987.

J.J. Nattiez, Fondements d’une Semiologie de la Musique, Union Generale d’ Editions, 1975.

Anagnostopoulou and G. Westermann, “Categorisation in music: A computational model for Paradigmatic analysis,” Proceedings ICMC, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1997.

Cambouropoulos, Towards a general computational theory of musical structure, PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998.

Okiji, “Storytelling in Jazz Work as Retrospective,” Collaboration Journal of the Society for American Music, 11(1), February 2017, pp. 70-92.

Bjerstedt, Story Telling in jazz Improvisation, PhD Thesis, Lund University, 2014.

Gillick, K. Tang, and R.M. Keller, “Machine Learning of Jazz Grammars,” Computer Music Journal, 2008, pp. 111–222.

Schuller, “Sonny Rollins and the challenge of thematic improvisation,” The Jazz Review, 1(1). 1958.

Abeßer, E. Cano, K. Frieler, and M. Pfleiderer, “Dynamics in jazz improvisation – score-informed estimation and contextual analysis of tone intensities in trumpet and saxophone solos,” Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology – CIM14, Berlin, Germany, 2014.

Norgaard, M. Montiel, and J. Spencer, “Chords not required: Incorporating horizontal and vertical aspects independently in a computer improvisation algorithm,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science, 2013, pp. 725–730.

Norgaard, “How jazz musicians improvise: The central role of auditory and motor patterns,”

Music Perception. 31(3), 2014, pp. 271-287.

Assayag and S. Dubnov, “Using Factor Oracles for machine Improvisation,” Soft Computing, 8(9), 2004 c; Imperial College Press, Lecture Notes Series, 2016, pp.61-74.

Mendonca and W. Wallace, “Cognition in Jazz Improvisation: An Exploratory Study,” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 26(26) 2004.

Horowitz, “Representing Musical Knowledge in a Jazz Improvisation System,” MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, 1995.

Johnson-Laird, Philip N. "How jazz musicians improvise." Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal19.3 (2002): 415-442. 

Vassilakis, D., Georgaki, A. and Anagnostopoulou, C., (2019). "JAZZ MAPPING" AN ANALYTICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO JAZZ IMPROVISATION. SMC MALAGA 2019 PROCEEDINGS.
http://smc2019.uma.es/articles/P3/P3_10_SMC2019_paper.pdf

Theory/Harmony/Arranging/Transcriptions:

Levine Mark “Jazz Theory Book” by Sher Music Co

Russo, William Composing for the Jazz Orchestra. University of Chicago Press

Russell Garcia “The Professional Arranger Composer” 1979 
Alfred Music Publishing

Bill Dobbins “Jazz Arranging And Composing”: A Linear Approach Advance Music

Liebman David Chromatic Approach
http://davidliebman.com/home/ed_articles/a-chromatic-approach-to-jazz-melody-and-harmony-brief-overview/

Bergonzi Gerry Melodic Structures
https://www.amazon.com/Melodic-Structures-Jerry-Bergonzi/dp/B000FSVJEI

History/Biographical:

Downbeat The Great Interviews 75th anniversary anthology Hal Leonard

Cook, Richard, and Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 9th ed. London: Penguin, 2008.

Feather, Leonard, and Ira Gitler. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Scott DeVeaux, The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)

Berliner, Paul F. Thinking in jazz: The infinite art of improvisation. University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Literature and fiction:

Jack Kerouac “Visions of Cody” & “On the road”

Geoff Dyer «But Beautiful»
http://geoffdyer.com/2011/04/06/but-beautiful/

Julio Cortazar, "The Pursuer"
http://www.academia.edu/4022376/Improvisation_and_Writing_Julio_Cortázars_El_Perseguidor_and_the_Pursuit_for_Freedom

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Dimitri Vassilakis relevant links (jazz improvisation, artificial intelligence, video art and movement):

Jazz Democracy at the United Nations (Trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9dNloN6oGM

"Jazz mapping AI & Robotics" for Singularity Summit Greece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyEXyn8T3Rs

Demokritos presentation in Greek
https://www.blod.gr/lectures/tzaz-aytoshediasmos-kai-tehniti-noimosyni/

“Jazz improvisation and AI interaction” performance examples at the Athens Kapodistrian University LabMat studio (playlist)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfth9JxqdMQFsg1od5icAtsqsWH6Pdflv

Ankara Jazz Festival
Jazz Democracy talk plus Jazz and Artificial Intelligence
https://youtu.be/K0jFcJeVrBs

Kassiani Byzantine Hymn
https://youtu.be/AkjmoiMLCLQ

Art Athina
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2XmP7ZA6V5/

United Nations
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2R_QVwgLVx/

Jazz Mapping paper link and cite:

Vassilakis, D., Georgaki, A. and Anagnostopoulou, C., (2019). "JAZZ MAPPING" AN ANALYTICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO JAZZ IMPROVISATION. SMC MALAGA 2019 PROCEEDINGS.

http://smc2019.uma.es/articles/P3/P3_10_SMC2019_paper.pdf

Dimitri Vassilakis discography

http://www.downbeat.com/digitaledition/2012/DB201202/single_page_view/22.html

http://store.candidrecords.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=61_192

LabMat link

https://mastermusictech-en.music.uoa.gr/staff/adjunct_faculty/

 

 

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