Sbrzesny heads new degree program in Basel
Visual artist and musician Raphael Sbrzesny is taking over the management of the new interdisciplinary Master's program "Music and Scene in Transformation" at the Basel School of Music, Classics.
Raphael Sbrzesny was born in 1985 and lives and works in Berlin. He studied contemporary music, classical percussion and chamber music in Stuttgart and Paris, experimental music theater and composition in Bern as well as visual arts and theory in Stuttgart and Munich.
Sbrzesny develops installations in which portable sculptures are activated as musical instruments in performances and combined with costumes, texts, videos and photographs. In his artistic practice, he is interested in the body as an instrument and setting for a subjective historiography. According to the university, the idea of the emancipated interpreter is central to him, who structures his own works using figures such as the Eumel, King, Son, Doctor, Sophie or Principal Boy and repeatedly performs them anew.
According to the press release, the MA Music and Scene in Transformation (MuST) "completely rethinks teaching and learning in the field of music and performance": MuST places "creation and collaboration at the center of education and breaks down disciplinary and genre boundaries with its unique anchoring in the performance practice of early music (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis) as well as contemporary music (sonic space basel)".
