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Emilie

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Undoubtedly one of the highlights of the conference was an emotionally powerful workshop given by concert pianist Dr Emilie Crapoulet which combined a musical recital and a facilitated enquiry-rich conversation with concept mapping, facilitated by Dr David Hay. We will be putting a film on this page so you can see what happened. What emerged from the process was the realisation that although we each had a unique set of responses to the music when we compared notes we found an amazing similarity in the pattern of responses in which the performer, music and the environment stimulated our imaginations to think of concrete things and more abstract metaphors that had particular meanings for each of us because of our identity. In other words experiencing music is an integral part of being who we are.
  
 

Music as a model of enquiry: Emilie Crapoulet   TEST video clip of Emilie playing

 

  

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 Participants' views and comments
 
 
'I had a moment of bliss this morning sitting listening to the piano and choosing to take the time and space from little time I had at Surrey.  I applaud your courage and creativity to include such items. They are very close to my heart and way of working and I feel that there is so much on offer to business, academia and enquiry from the nonverbal, ineffable realms.' email feedback from one participant in the workshop
 
 
'Given my obvious interest in blogging i had originally planned to attend the 'Enquiry through blogging' workshop. I'm sorry that i missed that given the good reports i heard, but i'm nonetheless happy to have followed a last minute gut reaction to go to 'Music as a model of enquiry'. This was really something special. I guess i felt beforehand that i couldn't miss it because it felt so 'left-field' (and in a conference as eclectic and creative as this, that's saying something!) and i'm still not exactly sure what to make of it, but you know that feeling when pre-conceived boundaries get a little shaken and stirred? That's how i felt after this and i like it.' Read more about it on Dave's reflections on the Facilitating Enquiry Conference  brilliant blog..
 
I'm sad I missed this workshop - my experience as a primary teacher certainly made me appreciate the power of music to unlock meanings and personal emotions. Children who found it difficult to be creative under normal classroom conditions often responded dramatically to musical stimulus, producing vivid pieces of writing, drama and dance. Our Guildford Adventure showed that even hardened academics can respond to a different stimulus and respond in unexpected ways! Perhaps music can be used in HE as a way of opening up creativity outside the arts arena. Even science tutors could take a leap of faith and use music to stimulate thought and use the reaction as a way of explaining how students might hope to respond to a particularly interesting debate. That music creates a visceral response is widely accepted so why not experiment in using it to promote such a response in other subjects? Sue  

 

Norman I know a number of people would have liked to have participated. We plan to run a similar workshop in the autumn possibly involving Emilie, Kai and David if he is interested.

 

That is good to hear Norman - I hope that I will be able to come. What surprises me is that after 2 years back in HE, I have so quickly become 'institutionalised' and forgotten the things I learnt in primary teaching - especially that you should use as many of your senses as possible, regardless of what subject you are teaching or learning in. Sue

 

 

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Emilie’s thoughts
I have given many piano recitals but this one was a particularly stimulating experience for me, as I was not only performing the music but also facilitating the listening process by guiding the participants in their awareness of how the music could touch them in many different ways and thus foster a rich and intense musical moment. Very rarely does a performer have the chance to actually witness the audience’s innermost thoughts and imaginings during a concert! It was such a privilege to be able to do so last week.
Music could fundamentally be described as a constantly emerging pattern in sound which creates and recreates itself as we listen, mirroring our own creative consciousness. That music itself could be taken as a stimulus to enquiry was one of the main aspects of the morning’s session, as enquiry could loosely be defined as a process of creating new meanings out of patterns of correspondences.
Concept-mapping had never been used within the context of a musical performance and David Hay and I were very excited at the prospect of trying it out in such perfect conditions with a particularly receptive (and enthusiastic!) audience. The result was quite amazing as meanings and connections gradually emerged during the performance and new listening territories were discovered and explored. I focused on
Impressionist music because it seemed to me that it best brought to light the connexions between the music and our emotional, imaginative and aesthetic responses. I felt that the descriptive or programmatic aspect of the pieces I was playing could facilitate the listening process by giving an initial insight into the sound-world of the pieces, as well as being taken as a spring-board towards creating our own personal musical meanings. This was clearly reflected in the richness of the concepts and links which were being posted up on the boards, in the moments between the actual playing.
The session was particularly inspiring and I hope to do something similar again. What emerged for me was the realisation that there is such a lot of scope for interaction and improvisation in this sort of event. A longer session (perhaps a whole day!) would allow David Hay to delve more deeply into the intricacies of concept-mapping as well as giving me the chance to perform several different types of repertoire, would be something to really look forward to.

 

 

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