Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

CT3: Solve problems and make decisions aligned with the objectives of the work being carried out.

CT6: Exercise self‑criticism regarding one’s own professional and interpersonal practice.

CT13: Seek excellence and quality in professional activity.

General Competences

CG2: Demonstrate adequate skills for musical reading, improvisation, creation, and re‑creation.

CG4: Recognise musical materials through the development of auditory skills and apply this ability in professional practice.

CG6: Master one or more musical instruments at a level appropriate to the main field of activity.

CG7: Demonstrate the ability to interact musically in different types of participatory musical projects.

CG9: Know the characteristics of the main instrument, including construction, acoustics, historical evolution, and mutual influences with other disciplines.

CG21: Create and shape personal artistic concepts, having developed the ability to express oneself through assimilated techniques and resources.

CG22: Possess broad and diverse musical resources to create or adapt musical pieces and improvise in different contexts, based on knowledge of various styles, formats, techniques, trends, and languages.

Specific Competences

SO10: Be capable of integrating art, technology, and science, with sufficient flexibility to adapt to multiple and changing environments.

SO11: Know the stage implications of professional activity and be able to develop their practical applications within the working context.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Participate actively in rehearsals, engaging in the resolution of technological problems and contributing artistic perspectives from an interpretative standpoint.
2. Assess the opportunities and challenges offered by electronic‑media performance in terms of timbral resources and interaction capacities, both of the instrument and among performers.
3. Acquire listening and interpretative habits required for group improvisation with creativity, expressiveness, adaptability, and suitability to the possibilities offered by an ensemble of digital electronic instruments.
4. Apply improvisation techniques learned to contexts of free improvisation, structured improvisation, directed improvisation, and improvisation supported by graphic scores.

Contents

The course focuses on ensemble improvisation using digital musical instruments. Its dual objective is:

1. to acquire sufficient instrumental mastery to address the challenge of group performance, exploring the opportunities and limitations of the electronic instrument used;
2. to incorporate listening and interaction skills that maximise the specificities of live electroacoustics with digital interfaces, developing the abilities required for free improvisation in this particular context.

Supervised rehearsal sessions revolve around specific content areas that serve as the leitmotif for each rehearsal and become the basis for collective reflection before and after each session.

Teaching methodology

Supervised rehearsal sessions with specific scenarios. Rehearsal serves as a starting point for group reflection on aspects of digital‑instrument ensemble performance, feeding back into incremental improvement of executions. A public presentation of the work is proposed, granting students autonomy in repertoire selection and improvisation structuring, and encouraging equal participation in discussions on planning and performance processes.

Assessment systems

Continuous assessment based on diagnostic evaluation and formalised through summative evaluation leading to the final grade. Assessment considers participation in rehearsals and concerts, individual and group involvement, ability to propose solutions to technical problems and creative ideas for interpretative scenarios, and the quality of contributions to discussions. Attendance is mandatory and part of the evaluation.