“…the study of the fundamental rhythmic exercise “GamalaTiKa,” the overtone series and harmonics offers a young player more direct connection to the “playing” aspect of music than does learning to read scores. This is the kind of pedagogy that could take root all over, encouraging spontaneous, personalized music wherever it Read more…
The legacy of the Creative Music Studio persists—if you listen “…attention to sense perceptions and encouragement of imaginative play remain touchstones of the CMS method, along with study of the rhythmic exercise called GaMaLa Taki (for its syllabic division into three beats, and two), the overtone series and harmonics. “These Read more…
The composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski, far right, teaching a workshop at Creative Music Studio, which is now releasing tapes from many of its sessions. raymond ross “…Its (CMS) instructors were active performers and bandleaders, and they used the school as laboratory and playground. …Certainly the discoveries of the students — Read more…