Current amplified music courses

Curriculum offered in partnership with contemporary music scenes of the Occitanie region, Music’Halle — l’École des musiques vivaces and the Université Toulouse — Jean Jaurès.

The current amplified music curriculum is getting a new look: personal artistic projects and openness to other disciplines within the institute, instrumental technique, interpretation, composition, improvisation are among the curriculum’s highlights. The field of current music is extremely vast, which is why there is no stylistic limit in the training offered by isdaT.

5 training areas

instrumental technique
interpretation
versatility: decryption, arrangement, composition, improvisation, studio, written and oral expression
the uniqueness of each, at an individual level and within a group
consistency of the subject.

These essential elements require regular and in-depth work to achieve both autonomy and better self-expression.

Organisation of studies

The course includes 1350 hours of training spread over 3 years and organised in teaching departments (UE). Obtaining a diploma is subject to the acquisition of 180 credits (ECTS), which can be acknowledged and transferred anywhere in Europe.

Teaching departments.1 / Musical practice

Perfecting playing skills
Workshops on an eclectic and contrasting repertoire
Improvisation/interaction workshop
Complementary instrument course
Vocal technique and posture
Choir

Teaching departments.2 / Musical culture

Composition/arrangement
Analysis of current music
History (current music, jazz, ethnomusicology or from different periods of classical music)
Music and acoustics technology

Teaching departments.3 / Cross-disciplinary and professionalising skills

Methodology course “preparation for professional life”
MAO (production of a sound document)
Internships and meetings with practitioners (artists, presenters, etc.)
Residence and creation of an autonomous artistic project.

Teaching resources

Whatever the chosen course, different teaching times are offered:

individual lessons,
group lessons,
masterclasses,
workshops and studios shared with the dance, art, design and graphic design departments,
internships and extracurricular projects (concerts/public offerings).

Workshops/internships

Guest trainers complete the training through internships, trans-disciplinary workshops (music, dance and visual arts) and workshops on specific aspects, including:

posture and injury prevention in musicians
mental preparation for performers
stage presence and public speaking
ancient and contemporary music
analysis of movement
labour law, copyright and statutes of performing musicians
designing artistic projects within the framework of cultural events and festivals (Les Siestes Électroniques, Jazz in Marciac, Octopus network of current music, Music’Halle…).

Professors

The teaching team is made up of artists and professors from isdaT, Music’Halle and Université Toulouse — Jean Jaurès.

Coordinating professor: David Haudrechy.

Instrument teacher and follow-up of the artistic project in the third year: depending on the discipline and musical aesthetic, a nationally renowned musician accompanies each student in the final year of the DNSPM to enable him·her to build his·her professional project. This year and in previous years, our students have been able to benefit from the lessons and advice of: Emmanuel Codjia, Julien Desprez, Clément Janinet, Renaud Louis-Marin, Yoann Serra, Pascal Vigné…

Guest artists of the year: each year, work is done on the repertoire of a musician. The objectives are to appropriate a repertoire, to create an arrangement, to benefit from a day of workshop and a concert shared with the guest artist. For the current year and the two previous years, the guest artists were Thomas de Pourquery, Vincent Peirani and Erik Truffaz.