Open practice with Sam Comerford

Name: Open practice with Sam Comerford
Start: 2025-12-13T14:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-13T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Van Lintstraat 43 - 45, 1070 Brussels, Belgium

Schedule

Sat Dec 13 2025 at 02:30 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Van Lintstraat 43 - 45, 1070 Brussels, Belgium | Anderlecht, BU

Welcome to our third 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲.
A musician brings a question, a method, an experiment.
Others join in, listen, try things out.
An alternative learning space for improvisation.
Our second open practice will be led by 𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱
Drawing upon his research project, "𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴; 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤", Sam will present some methods for collective improvisation based upon the melodic language of traditional irish music that he has been developing as part of his research at KASK & Conservatorium in Gent.
Comerford has been searching for ways to improvise in a group based upon the melodies of Irish dance music; a tradition made up of melodies played together in unison for dancing, where the rhythm and harmony are contained within the melody. He will present some methods to collectively expand the forms of the music, and some harmonic techniques that allow for meaningful ways of moving through harmony in folk musics outside of the diatonic, modal or drone-based frameworks that are commonly used.
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Everyone, musician or not, is welcome to come and listen. Feel free to bring an instrument!
𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒏, 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 14:30 𝒕𝒐 17:00, 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒚 9, 2026. 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆.
Photo: Laurent Orseau