V2 Collaborative and musical platform for musical students Erasmus Project

Project Title

V2 Collaborative and musical platform for musical
students

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

EUROPE IN C is a device aiming at inventing an innovative artistic learning process and at building new technological and pedagogical tools which will be destined to young European musicians.

Projected by PIANOANDCO, an artistic production organisation based in Marseille, and shared by a net of musical research and teaching organisations, the project revealed as a true artistic, technological and digital innovative path on a European scale.

Thanks to its assimilating capability, Terry Riley’s IN C (without a conductor and whose interpretation depends on the listening between the musicians) constituted the artistic center of the project. This work, chosen for its sequenced constituent structure, allowed to test an interactive and creative pedagogical method. The pedagogical team partners were totally involved and actively took part to the project. Before the Nathalie Négro organised workshops took place, the pedagogical partners worked with their students in order to elaborate original ways of restitution.

The 3 concert-performances of IN C, that have accompanied every stage of the project, have allowed more than 70 young musicians to perform in a professional environment in front of an audience of more than 1.500 people.
Some helping digital devices have been developed within the project in order to consolidate the collaborative exchanges and to equip the partner establishments with lasting digital softwares allowing them to work at distance during the meetings.
In this way, the creation of a digital platform embedding an instrumental data bank allowed to create a common base and to build a long-term community around this project. The LoLa software allowed the realisation of real time-at-distance concerts on a European scale: a première. This cutting-edge technology is definitively installed thanks to our cooperation and will work as a starting point for new long-term projects.

The production of a documentary by Anne Alix shows the great number of challenges that project faces and will ensure the publishing of the results.
This adventure that gathered 6 European harbor cities, Marseilles and Dunkirk in France, Athens in Greece, Ostende in Belgium, Trieste in Italy and Rostock in Germany, 8 conservatories/schools of music/universities, 3 research centers and an establishment of artistic production increased the competences of the entire collective.
The other elements who participated to the success of this project are the high level of technological development, its main goal represented by the presence of young musicians and the public events like the concerts or the final event on a European scale.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 186918 Eur

Project Coordinator

PIANO AND CO & Country: FR

Project Partners

• CONSORTIUM GARR
• ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON
• VILLE DE DUNKERQUE
• CONSERVATORIO DI MUSICA GIUSEPPE TARTINI
• Conservatorium aan Zee
• Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock