Teachers and students from Tonis, Gotlands School for Composition in Visby, will
perform a relay race of different small live sets. You will experience modular synths,
computer music, acoustic instruments and voice, a keytar and maybe dark horns from
the medieval city of Visby.
The teachers Ida Lundén and Marcus Wrangö share the stage together with the
students Arvid Kahl, Astrid Hessling, DAG RÖD, Eva Marklund, Laban Bettles,
nettle skin, Sophie Vitelli and T Fykse.
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About Tonis
At Tonis, as our school is known amongst students and locals, we believe that the answer lies in the unique educational concept that has become our hallmark – individually-oriented preparatory music composition programmes that enable students to develop both artistically and in terms of craftsmanship through learning-by-doing. At the end of the school year, the compositions of the student group feature in the self-produced Ljudvågor music festival, during which about 50 works are performed by professional ensembles and orchestras.
The programme prerequisites vary – applicants to our two-year music composition programme are typically individuals who are already aiming for a career in music composition, both acoustic and electronic music, who write their own music and who are looking to develop. Some are familiar with music notation and the theory of harmony, others are not. Our one-year music composition programme with an emphasis on the fine arts is for electroacoustic and sound artists, or musicians who are keen to further their education in music composition.
Our main goal is to ensure that students develop their own musical languages based on their own individual circumstances. Our pedagogical profile is to apply theory in practice. For example, a theory lesson in the morning might be applied to a creative workshop the same afternoon, where the students apply the theory towards a personal musical creation. The festival Sound Waves (Ljudvågor) is the ultimate result of our pedagogy and functions as the final thesis for the academic year. The composing work of an entire year culminates, through teacher mentorship and workshops with musicians, in world premieres for a paying audience at a music festval produced by the students themselves. In a typical composition project, the result of the individual lessons is tested in workshops, where the musicians who are to perform the work are invited to take part in the artistic process. All teaching relates more or less directly to the composition project– even electroacoustic music.
This showcase is endorsed by Gotland School for Composing (”Tonis”) in Visby, a
part of Folkuniversitetet.
