Illustrations; excerpt from the Cahier Percustra 2A, 1975, by Alphonse LEDUC and Co.
The Percustra teaching method was invented and developed by the founding members of the Percussions de Strasbourg, with the help of Pierre Boulez, in the early 70s. It was then spread across the whole world. With a collective educational approach that aims to stand apart from academic schemes, the Percustra method stimulates everyone’s creative potential. Whether they be professionals or amateurs, children and adults thus discover a music that expresses itself through every media, where creative freedom – in gestures and in sound – triumphs over academic constraint. Percustra is a collective and active approach of music. Notions of perception are put into perspective — notions such as listening, breathing or the pulse. Percustra feeds on the participants’ composition: any personal idea from a student can fit in the collective piece. The teacher (a musician from the band) rewrites or adapts the score all throughout the workshop.
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