School project
"Open your ears - you can fly!"
The SOUNDRISE QUARTET’s school project ‘Open Your Ears – You Can Fly’ combines musical practice, creative experimentation, and the experience of live performance in a collaborative project with students. The aim is to inspire young people to approach music with openness and curiosity and to actively engage in the creative process using their own instruments.
Improvisation is at the heart of the project. In workshops lasting several days, participants discover different forms of spontaneous musical expression, experiment with melody, rhythm, harmony, and sound, and develop their own musical ideas. The SOUNDRISE QUARTET contributes its extensive experience of improvisation across a wide range of styles, enabling students to explore diverse sound worlds and to be introduced to various concepts of improvisation. At the same time, great importance is placed on meeting each student at their own musical level, so that everyone can contribute according to their abilities.
In addition, participants are introduced to the quartet’s own compositions. The musical motifs and structures of these pieces are developed together and form the basis for improvisations connected to the pieces and for the students’ own musical contributions.
A key feature of the format is the combination of workshop and concert: in the final public concert, performed by the tutors, the results of the workshop are presented in concert form, and the students actively participate in selected compositions by the SOUNDRISE QUARTET. In this way, they experience first-hand how collaborative creative processes lead to a vibrant concert experience. If requested, an additional concert can be organised for students from the participating schools.
The project fosters creativity, musical curiosity, and collaborative music-making, inviting participants to explore new sound worlds with their instruments and to give free rein to their musical imagination, in keeping with the motto ‘Open Your Ears – You Can Fly!’. At the same time, this form of making music together has a strong social dimension: it encourages students to listen carefully to one another, to give each other space, and to experience personal development within the group. READ MORE
VOICES
“Open your ears - you can fly!” - Improvisation Workshop for Students from Grade 6 to 11
A music teacher in Vaihingen/ENZ shares:
Voices from students in Vaihingen/Enz:
