Course

MUSIC SPRING WEEKEND

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A course in which you join a group of musicians, who start as strangers and throughout a weenkend learn how to become a band. At the end of the course, this new band plays a show!

For anyone who plays an instrument and is 18 years or older.

Puglia (location TBA) – March 19-21, 2027

What is this?

Spend a week with a group of musicians in a palace in Southern Italy. You’ll start as strangers, and through the week you’ll play, socialise, bond, eat together and party together. All of this will be used to create music as a collective. At the end of the week, you’ll play a show together.

These are the skills we’re focusing on in this weekend:

  • collaboration/cooperation, using bonding experiences to create music;
  • taking creative risks;
  • conceptualising and setting up a show.

Who’s teaching?

Daniel Matias Ferrer
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Founder and lead maestro of Jam With Humans. Originally from Portugal, where they started a career in music, teaching and playing within a range of musical flavours, from orchestral to hardcore punk, from folk to free jazz.

Nicolas Raspail
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Head teacher of the Jam With Humans Academy, with a passion for designing processes and to break down and simplify complex concepts. Also a researcher on embodied practice within music. Also French.

Albert Manders
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US-born Dutch-American flutist and composer extraordinaire, with decades of experience in a wide range of performance, from musical theatre to Scottish folk dances. Currently, a Jam With Humans senior teacher and director.

Our approach

In Jam With Humans, we believe in starting where the student is already at, and teaching tools to expand their creativity from that point.

Our teachers like teaching material which wasn’t taught to them in music school, and we are very careful to make sure that we don’t end up teaching how to play like our teachers, but instead teaching the students how to play like themselves.

Our courses, albeit rooted in theory, are mostly practical, as we trust the best way to explore an instrument is by playing it.