Shape-sound-color as the elements of a graphic score in developing the improvisation skills in education and artistic practice

Activities within composition, improvisation, graphic score creating and recreating, using the achievements of experimental compositional techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries constitute an important part of my improvisation teaching program. I derive my ’Shape-Sound-Color' improvisation workshop from the analysis of graphic scores, prints and other examples of Bogusław Schaeffer’s work. This inter-disciplinarility allows for a broad exploration of the specification of the codes for various arts, the relations between them and their transposition going beyond their division. In my work it brings new possibilities for inspiration in creative activities. It was natural for me to use his works and treat them as an inspiration in the preparation of creativity exercises, especially in the context of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze’s method where artistic superstructure is realized within the number of arts. The ’Shape-sound-color’ workshop has wide pedagogical and artistic applications, firstly on the level of music higher education - in the training of instrumental and movement improvisation skills, secondly on the level of primary music school - as a stimulation of creativity, sensitization to timbre and sound quality, awakening of musical imagination, formation of cooperative skills, thirdly in the work with amateurs and pedagogues involved in cultural education (for example in theatre) - as a tool in working with music in a stage performance. In the social area when the activities undertaken during the workshop affect self-esteem and a sense of creative community they become a socialization tool. Based on an open form and the connections between visual art and music, the 'shape-sound-color' exercises help to build an artistic identity for contemporary art. ISBN 978-83-963687-5-1The article is published on the digital platform 'Atlas of Eurhythmics' This contribution is part of the Erasmus+ Project Eurhythmics in Education and Artistic Practice (EEAP) 2020-1-SE01-KA203-07782