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Playing Schumann Again for the First Time

This artistic research project exposes Robert Mitchell's attempts to layer musical materials from the core of the classical piano repertoire - in this case, materials from scores and sketches of Robert Schumann - to create ever increasingly larger spaces in which improvisatory practice at the piano can take place.
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Bobby Mitchell

keyboard
Keywords: improvisation, piano, schumann
Duration: Started in 2013
Period: 19th century music, 21st century music
Musician type: keyboard
Host institution: Leiden University
Prof. Frans de Ruiter (promotor), Marcel Cobussen (promotor), Rudolf Lutz

This artistic research project exposes Robert Mitchell's attempts to layer musical materials from the core of the classical piano repertoire - in this case, materials from scores and sketches of Robert Schumann - to create ever increasingly larger spaces in which improvisatory practice at the piano can take place.

The research constists of the following steps:

Step 1: Choose strands of musical materials: melodies, harmonic patterns, figurative patterns, etc.

Step 2: Layer these pieces of 'debris' in unforeseen ways and realize the result through pianistic practice.

Step 3: Evaluate the sounding results and repeat the process with a conscious awareness of processing musical materials in a way that increasingly bears my own sonic signature.

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