“COBRA” Taught by Anna Patton

A participatory, improvisatory musical game-piece created by John Zorn. For instrumentalists and vocalists who are willing to make stuff up, listen, and pay attention.

Cobra is a fun, fast-paced musical(-ish) game-piece by John Zorn. It’s structure might remind you more of a theater improv game than a piece of music. The musical/sonic material is entirely improvised and different in every iteration of the game. Participants signal a prompter to give the ensemble various cues written on cards so that all the improvisers can momentarily take control of the shape of the piece. Transitions can be quite fast and comically abrupt. Cobra is a great structure for working on decisiveness and commitment in improvisation, and for exploring urges that may be inappropriate in politely democratic jam sessions.

Participants may come to whichever date or dates they can make, though there will probably be less teaching of the game at later dates and they may need to watch and listen for a while before jumping in.

There is no fee, but there will be a donation jar for anyone moved to contribute for the teaching and the use of the space.

Questions? anna@annapatton.com