Gitarre & E-Gitarre

Dear guitarists,

it is that time again where I am most delighted to share with you what awaits you at the Darmstadt Summer Course Guitar Studio. As always the content holds two main trajectories:

• Make you a better musician & guitarist.
• Enrich your musical pallet through a series of collaborations and joint activities with other instrumentalists, composers and particular experts attending the course.

With that in mind and together with the Summer Course team we’ve put together for you the following: Everyone, Everywhere & All Around. A daily project where guitarists are due to participate in guided chamber music sessions spanning repertoire from the mid 20th century till current days. Featuring music by Mauricio Kagel, Kaija Saariaho, Raphaël Cendo, Rebecca Saunders and Kate Soper, guitarists are due to play with performers from almost all other instrumental studios as means to improve their chamber music skills while expanding their musical contacts.

Co-Lab. A lab of four sessions hosted by composer Clara Iannotta and myself in which four guitarists and four composers will be working together on short new pieces written especially for the occasion. Along the way, we will be going through various collaboration strategies as we aim to improve participants ability to engage and maximize the potential of future composer-performer encounters.

3D-Audio-Lab. Another project featuring new pieces by composers attending the Summer Course written for both electric and classical guitar (one for each). Drifting to the realms of technology and its impact on guitar repertoire, the key focus here will be the composers and guitarists work with a SUBPRO pick up. This pick up, in simple words, outputs each string of the guitar onto a different channel of audio, which can be individually processed and/or spatialized (with or without other electronics) in the 360° audio system of the 3D-Audio-Lab, which will be led by Brigitta Muntendorf, Aaron Holloway-Nahum and Lukas Nowok.

As in every edition, the class activity will also include individual lessons, guitar specific workshops and island of time for spontaneous encounters and on the fly set projects.

With much anticipation for our time together,

Yaron Deutsch