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IMPRO!

即興！

Catch the Spirit of the Moment

唱入當下

即興! 將經過考驗的即興演奏技巧與「即時作曲」相結合，這種方法讓一群荷蘭即興演奏家聞名全球。你的帶領者Mark van Tongeren是一位自學成才的即興表演者，對探索自我、自我表達和團體動態充滿著極具感染力的熱情。像任何優秀的小丑一樣，他並不幼稚或天真，而是讓成年人改變他們看待世界和自我的方式，創造出全新的聲音語言、新的溝通方式，乃至新的自我表達方式……直到你開始思索：那個「自我」究竟是什麼？

 

 — 感受

離開你的舒適圈

【時間】

11/27（週三）- 11/28（週四）

每天 10:00-17:15

【地點】

台北寶藏巖國際藝術村

臺北市中正區汀州路三段230巷底

寶藏巖聚落位於公館區，距離公館捷運站步行即可到達，地理位置十分便利。

 

【當日行程】

11月27日

10:00-12:30（2.5小時）
          投入! 第一次即興課程

          +反思! 探索即興作為一種存在與身心健康的方式

12:30-13:30（1小時）
           休息

13:30-16:00（2.5小時）
           我們使用的方法。遊戲、溝通、技巧
           應用和測試這些方法

16:00-16:15（15分鐘）
           休息

16:15-17:15（1小時）
           自由即興 #1 

 

11月28日

10:00-12:30（2.5小時）
           投入! 新的即興活動

        +反思!  一些答案，更多的問題，再次探索…

12:30-13:30（1小時）
           休息

13:30-16:00（2.5小時）
           磨練方法
           如何丟失自己並重新找回自我？
           新的遊戲與技巧
           關於存在、存有與身心健康

16:00-16:15（15分鐘）
           休息

16:15-17:15（1小時）
           即興 # ∞
           最終反思

活動舉辦方保有異動時間權利。

【工作坊詳細介紹】

2003年，Mark與Phil Dadson (NZ)、Makigami Koichi (JP)組成「人聲雜耍」（Vocal Acrobats）三人組到紐西蘭巡迴演出後，來到台灣。台北藝術大學的鍾明德教授給予Mark表演和工作坊的自由，並從Mark的想法中挑選了一句話來告訴他在台灣該做什麼： 「抓住當下的精神」（Catch the Spirit of the Moment）。這句話至今仍像當年一樣清晰。

如何活著、行動、創作，同時完全活在當下？如何什麼都不做，卻又什麼都做？如何學會相信某種流動會來到你的身邊，會穿過你的身體？如果根本沒有流動，而你計劃的一切都出錯了呢？因為你一開始就錯了嗎？或是因為其他人打亂了你對即興創作需要走向何處的想像？

訓練某些技巧是一回事，而且是很大的一回事。在這個兩天工作坊，我們會交替進行真正的即興創作，同時建立音樂和其他技能。了解即興是什麼和可以是什麼是另一件事。範圍幾乎是無限的。

我們將使用引人入勝的樂曲和結構，從有趣和娛樂性到挑戰性和複雜性。無論你擁有或缺乏什麼程度的經驗和信任，你都可以帶著許多新的想法和發現回家，發現當你完全沉浸在演奏中時，你還能成為什麼樣的人。讓我們認真玩樂！

 

 

【誰適合參加？】

任何人都可參加。只要你有足夠的好奇心和自信，去與他人一起唱歌、演奏、製造噪音或動作、跳舞、寫作、畫畫。

(最少 8 人，最多 16 人）

 

 

【語言】

英文以及中文即席翻譯

 

 

【帶領者介紹】

1992 年及整個 1990 年代，Mark van Tongeren 開始以音樂即興演奏家及物件劇場（object-theatre）創作者的身份演出。2000 年代，他轉向各種即興音樂，與 Fred Frith、Koichi Makigami、馬友友 和 Oorbeek 等人合作。2010 年代，他與更多舞蹈團體合作，也讓肢體表演在他自己的作品中扮演更重要的角色。到了 2020 年代，他的多元風格更加跨越音樂、文化和學科的邊界。在台灣，他是三人組合 ALLSYMT 的一員，與原住民、華人及國外藝術家合作演出，並領導他的聲樂實驗團體漪渦魚

(IUooUI)。他在台北每週舉辦的聲樂瑜珈課程，是一種有引導的、直覺的即興。

 

【支持團隊】

本次工作坊還由即席翻譯兼共同籌辦者者李紀辰協助，她負責聲音工作坊的翻譯，並受聲音的啟發，繼續探索相關領域；以及行政助理張惜音協辦，本身也是聲音療癒師，熱愛唱歌和創作音樂。

報名、詢問工作坊詳情，歡迎聯繫惜音 hsiyin724@gmail.com 

或直接透過手機聯繫Mark 0910382749

 

 

【報名費用】

全額費用：9500元

到10月20日

超早鳥優惠 / 75折：7125元 

學生；經濟方面需要支持的藝術家（需提供證明） / 75折：7125元

到11月6日

早鳥優惠 / 85折：8075元 

TOSA會員 / 年長者 85折：8075元

雙人報名 / 早鳥外加95折：7600元

舊生優惠 / 7折：6650元

11月6日之後

原價 / 9500元

雙人報名 / 95折：每人9025元

 

 

【報名方式】

1.請透過此連結報名

https://form.jotform.com/242682423145353

2.確認報名費用後，請在三天內進行學費匯款

3.匯款完成後，請聯絡

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請以Line、Email 擇一聯繫惜音

—LINE ID: hsiyinchang

—-Email：hsiyin724@gmail.com

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4.經確認款項後，將在五天內發出報名確認信件，也會與您確認行程詳細事宜

 

 

【取消政策】
我們盡量保持合理的價格。如果您在課程開始前31至60天取消報名，我們將退還90%的費用。如果您在課程開始前15至30天取消報名，我們將退還50%的費用。如果您在課程開始前14天內取消報名，我們將退還20%的費用。如果您找人代替參加，我們只收取10%的行政費。

 

 

【責任歸屬】

報名此工作坊代表你了解:

1) 工作坊可能會有劇烈肢體運動，引起身體跟心理的衝擊。

2) 工作坊中的每項活動都不是強制性的，你必須衡量自身狀況(身體/心理/情緒)來決定要不要參與。

3) 你會對自己的身體及心理狀態負責，主辦方不承擔任何相關的傷害、損失及賠償責任。

 

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM IN SHORT

Impro! blends tried and tested techniques of improvisation with instant composing, a method that lent a group of Dutch improvisers worldwide fame. Your guide Mark van Tongeren is a self-taught improviser with a contagious passion for charting new territories of self-, self-expression and group dynamics. Like any good clown, he is not childish or naïve; he lets adults change the way they see the world and themselves, by creating new languages of sound, new ways of communicating, new ways of being yourself … until you wonder: what is that self? 

       feel 

Leave your comfort zone

 

DATES AND TIMES

Wednesday + Thursday November 27 + 28

10:00-17:15

11/27（週三）- 11/28（週四）

10:00-17:15

 

LOCATION

TREASURE HILL VILLAGE  

台北寶藏巖國際藝術村

Treasure Hill village is conveniently located in the Gongguan area in walking distance from the MRT Gongguan.

 

TIME SCHEDULE AND CONTENT

November 27

10:00-12:30

Dive! First improv sessions

Reflect! Explorations into improv as a mode of being and well-being

12:30-13:30   – – – break

13:30-16:00

Methods we use. Games, communications, skills.

Applying and testing methods.

16:00-16:15  – – – break

16:15-17:15

The Jam #1.

 

November 28

10:00-12:30

Dive! New improv sessions

Reflect! Some answers. Many more questions.

Dive again….

12:30-13:30   – – – break

13:30-16:00

Sharpening Methods. How to lose and find yourself again? 

New games and skills.

About modes of existence, being, well-being.

16:00-16:15   – – – break

16:15-17:15

Jam # ∞

Final reflections.

 

We keep the right to make changes to the time schedule.

FULL DESCRIPTION

Mark arrived on Taiwan’s shores in 2003, coming back from a tour in New Zealand as the Vocal Acrobats – a trio with Phil Dadson (NZ) and Makigami Koichi (JP). TNUA’s professor Chung Mingder gave Mark carte blanche for performances and workshops, and picked one phrase out of Mark’s ideas about what to do in Taiwan: “Catch the Spirit of the Moment”. That phrase still stands as clearly as it did back then. How to live, act, create while being completely in the present? How to do nothing, and yet everything? How to learn to trust that a certain flow will come to you, will move through you? What if there is no flow at all and everything you planned goes wrong? Because you started out wrong? Or because someone else messes up your imagination of where this improvisation needs to go?

Training certain skills is one thing, and a big one at that. We will alternate true improvisation with building musical and other skills. Understanding what improvising is and can be is another. The scope is virtually endless.

We will work with fascinating pieces and structures, ranging from fun and entertaining to challenging and complex. No matter what level of experience and trust you have / you lack, you will be able to go home with plenty of new ideas and discoveries of who else you can be when you indulge yourself completely in playing. Serious playing!

 

FOR WHOM?
Anyone who is curious and confident enough to sing or to play or to make noise or to move-dance-write-draw  with others.

(Minimum: 8, maximum:16 people)

 

LANGUAGES
English + Chinese  

 

YOUR TEACHER
In 1992 and throughout the 1990s, Mark van Tongeren began performing as a musical improviser and bricoleur in object-theatre. In the 2000s he switched to all kinds of musical improv, playing with the likes of Fred Frith, Koichi Makigami, Yo-Yo Ma and Oorbeek. The 2010s saw more dance collaborations and also a greater role for the performing body in his own work. In the 2020s, his polystylistic approach transcends musical, cultural and disciplinary borders ever more. In Taiwan, he is part of trio ALLSYMT, performs with indigenous, Chinese and foreign artists and leads his vocal experimental group IUooUI. His weekly Voice Yoga class in Taipei is a guided, intuitive improv-session of sorts.

SUPPORTING TEAM & CONTACT
This workshop is also brought to you by interpreter and co-organiser Chi Chen Lee, who interprets for sound workshops and is inspired by sound to continue the exploration; by administrative assistant Hsi-Yin Chang, who is also a sound and wellness practitioner, with an interest in singing and creating music.

▲ For any questions about the contents and registration, please contact Hsi Yin (speaks Chinese and English):

Email: hsiyin724@gmail.com
Line ID: hsiyinchang

or Mark: 0910382749

 

PRICES

Full price 9500

Up to Sunday October 20

Super Early Bird / 25% off 7125

Students & poor Struggling

artist (with proof) / 25% off 7125

Up to Wednesday November 6

Early Bird / 15% off 8075

TOSA members  & seniors / 15% off 8075

Bring a friend / 5% off each 7600

Old students / 30% off 6650

After November 6:

Full price 9500

Bring a friend / 5% off each 9025

REGISTRATION and PAYMENT

  1. Sign up through this form: https://form.jotform.com/242612129392353
  2. Make a transfer within 3 days and contact Hsi-Yin via email (hsiyin724@gmail.com)
  3. We will confirm with you within 5 working days that you have completed the registration!

Make a transfer within  3 days to: 

Bank code: 822

Name of bank: China Trust

Beneficiary: Mark Christiaan van Tongeren

Account number: 163540306745 

 

CANCELLATION POLICY
We try to keep prices reasonable. we will return 90% of the fee if you cancel 31 – 60 days prior to the workshop.

We will return 50% of the fee if you cancel 30 – 15 days prior to the workshop.

We will return 20% of the fee if you cancel within 14 days prior to the workshop.

If you find a substitute for your spot, we will keep 10% of the administration fee.

 

DISCLAIMER

By signing up you automatically acknowledge your understanding that this workshop may involve potentially disrupting body-work and emotionally charged sessions with a deep impact on your well-being. It is understood that you yourself best know of any risks (physical, emotional, psychological) and that there is no pressure or obligation to do each and every exercise.

 

Sound Journey: Cycles and Rhythms

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Four days to explore Time through exciting rhythms, solemn melodies and ritualistic cycles.

Repeat repeat repeat.

Refresh refresh refresh.

Four days to reveal the secrets that Time plays with us in our daily lives.

 

JANUARY 24-27 , 2019, JIANSHI – TAIWAN

 

 

 

The Cycles

In our daily lives we are constantly immersed in cycles and rhythms. Some are natural, some cultural, some personal. Think of the seasons and our biological clock; our annual festivities and celebrations, our workweek; the times we get up, we sleep, we relax with friends or family.

How do cycles, like night and day, circadian rhythms (+/- 24 hours) and the seasonal rhythms influence us? How can we understand these rhythms in a time when we are deeply changed by artificial light, the 24-hour economy and fixed working hours, year-through? How can we play with these influences, use them more consciously, adapt them to our needs and to our actual, real-life rhythms? How can we break through our most stubborn, unhealthy patterns or improve them?

No one seems to escape from frequent feelings of being hurried, being late, being busy. Time seems to be either running after us, or we are running to catch up with Time. Music, meditation, hobbies and ‘spare time’ in general are moments to catch our breath and to not feel the pressure of The Clock. Is life really moving faster nowadays?

Many lucid minds have thought about such questions throughout the ages, and our days are no exception. Using examples from many epochs and insights from East and West, we confront these questions. We will look for and find answers in biology, philosophy and science. But most of all, we will explore answers in and through music.

 

The Rhythms

Can we make a music that reflects all these rhythms? A music that is not just for distraction, fun or entertainment, but a music that is charged with deeper meaning, understanding, and deeper transformative elements? What does that music sound like? Will it work?

Music happens to be a powerful messenger of a deeper sense of time. It unlocks secrets of time – and then again it makes the mystery bigger. In these three days we listen to examples of music based on the movements of planets, on the heartbeat, and learn to create our own original musics along similar lines. We create our own music based on the rhythms of cells and planetary movements (can you attune your voice to your cells or to Jupiter?). We look and listen into the rhythms and pulses of our individual ‘bodysphere’, and make them audible. We enact slow rituals to catch Time in its tracks, as it unfolds – as gesture, or dance – in our limbs and escapes – as sound – from our lips. In between we pause, reflect and discuss the ongoing game that Time plays with us. All with the aim to connect more deeply and more wisely with the manifold rhythms of the life forms inside and outside ourselves.

Program day to day

Every day we explore one of the cycle forms with which we want to make music that day.

We start Thursday from the ‘median’ rhtyhms that we can feel and test most easily: those of our own lifecycle and the longer biorhythms such as breath and hearbeat.

We continue Friday with the Circadian rhythms (day-night), expanding to the largest cycles of planets and other heavenly bodies.

Saturday we finish with a focus on the rhythms of cells and organs and also of other species, and look at the full picture of Cycles and Rhythms.

By Sunday we have a more complete picture of time cycles, with attached problems, as well as a picture of the solutions: the rhythms and tones that help us tune-in to the real world.

For each day we review some of the theories, we make our own observations and discuss the problems attached to it. At various stages, we create our own musical responses: sometimes more intuitively, sometimes in the shape of simple compositions that anyone can take part in. Gradually we will get closer to revealing the complex web of time cycles in which our life unfolds, and find answers to the question what we can do to adjust our pace to the unfolding of Time.

Dates, times, prices

OPTION ONE: FULL WORKSHOP.

The full workshop lasts 3,5 days, from Thursda, January 24,  noon (+ evening) to Sunday January 27, afternoon 4 PM. On Friday and Saturday we have a program for all day (including evening), with longer breaks to let everything sink in.

The price for the 3,5 day workshop is NT$ 12.000.

Early bird (till November 5) and R E S O N A N C E students price: NT$ 10.800.

OPTION TWO: 2, 5 DAYS

For those who are short of time (it happens), it is possible to join from Friday, January 25, evening – let us know when you can arrive so we can inform you about the reduced price.

(NOT) INCLUDED:

All meals are included. Transport and lodging are not included. Lodging is on-site at The Rainbow Mountain, Jianshi, where you can stay all the time. The rooming options differ a bit and are handled separately by Sunny Chen.

REGISTRATION

Registration: through the form or write us:

Sunny Chen: ly.sunny.chen at gmail dot com / lineID: soleilc77
Mark van Tongeren: mark at fusica dot nl

Please send a clear proof of your payment (bank transfer) by email to Mark or Sunny.

Max. 12 students.

This workshop is in English with Mandarin translation.

Mandarin registration link (write us for English registration).

 

用四天來探索，探索時間。透過慷慨激昂的節奏，莊嚴的旋律，與儀式性地循環。
重複，重複，再重複。
更新，更新，再更新。
四天的時間，揭露時間在我們生活中所扮演的神秘角色。
(也可以選擇只參加2.5天, 週五到週日)

【帶領者】 Mark van Tongeren 德蘇
馬克．范．湯格鄰（Mark van Tongeren）是一位在藝術與科學疆界耕耘的聲音表演家，擁有二十五年音樂與多媒體表演資歷，為荷蘭萊登大學民族音樂學研究博士。為向大師習藝，他的足跡遍及阿爾泰地區、地中海、以及西藏寺院。在國際上，他是泛唱表演與研究著作的權威。曾任教於台北藝術大學戲劇學系（2003-2004客座講師)，政治大學Ｘ書院（2012-2014) ，肯園香氣私塾「聲音瑜珈」（2013-)。合作對象包含作曲家、即興創作者、原民音樂家、與台灣舞蹈團體。肯園科西嘉島芳香之旅領隊。2018年帶團前往圖瓦（西伯利亞）進行深度的音樂之旅。 目前與其妻溫佑君以及他們的兩位孩子定居於台灣。
https://www.fusica.nl/biography/

[課程內容]
我們日常生活的無時無刻都沈浸在節奏與循環之中。有些循環是自然現象，有些是文化的，有些則是個人的。循環跟節奏的例子有四季的變化跟身體的生理時鐘、每年的節日與慶典、我們每個星期工作週的週而復始—每天起床、睡覺、和家人及朋友相處。

每個人在自己的生活中似乎都無法逃脫很趕，一直趕進度，很忙很忙的感覺。我們好像一直被時間追，又好像是跑在時間後面追趕它。音樂、冥想、休閒嗜好跟「自由時間」似乎是我們能夠喘口氣，而不感覺時間壓力的時刻。音樂同時也是帶領我們進入一種深度時間的媒介。音樂揭露時間的秘密，又或者，它讓時間更為神秘？

在四天的工作坊，我們會以細胞和星球運行的節奏靈感來玩音樂（你曾經讓自己的聲音調頻到自己的細胞或木星的頻率嗎？）我們可以聆聽和檢視我們自己身體的「身體星球體」，把它化為能被聽見的音樂。我們會參與緩慢的儀式，在慢動作中捕捉時間流動的軌跡—每個肢體的動作和舞蹈、從我們嘴唇邊逃逸出的各種聲音—所有在時間當下發生的一切。在各個活動之間，我們會空下來，來省視與反思時間對我們的影響—人活在時間之中的小遊戲。我們現代的生活中，時間真的越來越快了嗎？

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ㄧ些關於循環與節奏的核心問題是：現代人要如何面對充滿時間壓力的世界？我們是否能夠創造一種幫助自己“調頻”到平靜世界的音樂頻率？

我們每天會探索一種循環的形式，整天都用其規律來創造音樂。

週四我們會以直接感受的“中位數平均”節奏開始：像是我們的生命循環或是生物性的生命節奏，例如呼吸跟心跳等等。

週五我們接續著以晝夜循環開始，並延續到最大的星球和其他天體的循環。

週六我們會為細胞跟器官，以及其他物種的生命節奏做個小結。並且更宏觀的檢視循環與節奏。

到了週日，我們對於時間的循環已經會有有較全面的了解：了解其相關的問題，以及各種可能的解決方案——也就是幫助我們與真實世界調頻，透過節奏與音調。

每天我們都會檢視一些概念，提出我們自己的經驗觀察，然後討論相關問題。在不同的階段，我們會創造我們自己的音樂性回應：有時候是直覺性的反應; 有時是透過一些簡單的規則結構，使得所有人都能輕鬆的參與其中。漸漸的，我們會越來越接近我們生命之中時間循環的複雜網絡，進而找到我們在時間的流逝中，該如何調整自己的腳步的方向。

【課程資訊】
[對象]: 任何想深入接觸聲音、音樂的人。任何想要增進聲音、震動、及覺性的聲音音場之技巧以及了解的創作者、身體工作者或心靈修練者。對課程內容有想望者。
[語言]: 英文+中文
[時間]: 2019年1月24-27日，週四中午到週日下午四點
[地點]: 彩虹山嶺-靜淨境教室，新竹縣尖石鎮義興村9鄰93之1號
[學費] 12,000。含十餐和保險
早鳥優惠（至11月5日）/ R E S ON A N CE折扣：NT $ 10,800。
學生折扣（帶學生證）：8折

不包含:
＊ 內灣火車站到彩虹山嶺的交通
＊ 三晚的住宿
(1500-3600之間，依房型和人數而定。
當學員報名完成，將會說明與協調選擇。
如需特殊住宿安排，請於報名表單末說明。或聯繫我們)

[開課人數]: 最少8人- 最多12人
[折扣]:
– 學生8折 (請帶學生證)
– Resonance 舊生: 10,800

【好奇嗎？請來電或來信了解詳情】
中文： ly.sunny.chen@gmail.com / lineID: soleilc77 陳亮伃
英文： info@fusica.nl Mark van Tongeren

【報名連結】
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