CMS Workshops
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
November 27 :: Creative Music Workshop at AppleHead Recording in Saugerties NY with Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Billy Martin and special guest Gabby Fluke-Mogul
Creative Music Studio Presents Music Workshops in a state-of-the-art recording / performance facility Applehead Recording, 1.5 miles from downtown Woodstock.
Workshops will be lead by Billy Martin, Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Karl Berger, and Ingrid Sertso.
The workshop period with take place on Saturday November 27th 12-6pm.
THIS ON-LOCATION WORKSHOP IS FOR ALL INSTRUMENTALISTS and listeners too!
PAST WORKSHOPS
November 13 :: Billy Martin's Creative Music Weekend Workshops in Denver, CO
Billy Martin (Medeski Martin & Wood) conducts a two-day music workshop with co-host Adam Morford at Morfbeats Studio in Denver, Colorado
SEPTEMBER 25 :: Creative Music Workshop @ AppleHead Recording :: live on location and streaming
Workshops will be lead by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Peter Apfelbaum, Billy Martin (and a special guest TBA) in a state-of-the-art recording / performance facility 1.5 miles from downtown Woodstock.
SEPTEMBER 9 :: Mini Drum Fest with Billy Martin & Jerome Deupree
Come join Billy Martin (aka illy B) and special guest Jerome Deupree for a creative journey into the language of drumming through performance and discussion.
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CMS WORKSHOP INFO
In the 1970s and 1980s, CMS was renowned for its legendary “workshop intensives.” These featured hundreds of guiding artists, including five MacArthur “genius” Fellows. In 2013, after a decades-long hiatus offering these workshops, CMS began offering workshop intensives to professional and amateur musicians, adults interested in lifelong learning, and even to fans of the music, who don’t play an instrument at all. A few were dancers!
Each workshop typically features 8–10 Guiding Artists and 18–25 participants. The days and nights are long, challenging, energizing, exhausting, inspirational, frustrating, fun, insightful and mostly a rare opportunity to focus on music day and night with others who share a passion for improvisation.
Workshop Format:
CMS Workshops feature four days of intensive workshops, master classes, intimate concerts and informal jam sessions that inspire active listening, personal expression, improvisation and musical exploration. Musicians of any instrument, including voice, are welcome as are non-musicians. Adults who played music earlier in their lives can benefit from this lifelong learning opportunity that offers participants a once-in-a-lifetime experience to learn from and play with music masters, and simply spending time with them in an informal, personal setting. The non-traditional atmosphere of the Creative Music Studio Workshop encourages participants to experiment, push beyond limits, genres and categories, to take risks.
A typical day at the CMS Workshop is:
8:00–9:30 Breakfast 9:30–10:00 Body Awareness 10:15–1:00 Master Class / Workshop 1:00–2:15 Lunch 2:30–4:00 Master Class 4:30–5:30 Basic practice with Karl and Ingrid: Rhythm / Voice Awareness; GaMaLa Taki Rhythm Method 5:30–6:30 Improvisers Orchestra 6:30–6:45 Listening Meditation 7:00–8:15 Dinner 8:30–10:00 Performances with Guiding Artists 10:00 Participant concerts and improvisational sessions
CMS Workshop Guiding Artists for 2013 to 2015 have included:
Vijay Iyer, Dave Douglas, John Medeski, Henry Threadgill, Joe Lovano, Oliver Lake, Don Byron, Tyshawn Sorey, Marty Ehrlich, John Hollenbeck, Badal Roy, Peter Apfelbaum, Tony Malaby, Cyro Baptista, Marilyn Crispell, Steven Bernstein, Jason Hwang, Kurt Knuffke, Kenny Wessel, Steve Gorn, Mark Helias, Tom Rainey, Thomas Buckner, Judi Silvano, Harvey Sorgen, Tani Tabbal, Ken Filiano, Omar Tamez, Warren Smith, Amir ElSaffar, and John Menegon, in addition to Creative Music Foundation co-founders Karl Berger, and Ingrid Sertso.