How can sound & noise projects open the way for children to a wide range of music experience?
Since 2009, geräusch[mu’si:k] e.V. has been realizing artistic mediation projects on listening as complex perception, on experimental music with everyday sounds and on composing with graphic notation techniques. This expertise with over 1,500 children in day-care centres, schools, museums and other educational institutions is conveyed in practice-oriented courses at universities and educational training institutes.
In this workshop we will jointly examine a material pool of everyday noise generators (such as rustling paper bags, snapping rubber bands or whirring rulers)
and explore possibilities of sound production: beating, stroking, scratching, rubbing, throwing, dropping, rolling etc. These elementary musical phenomena of our acoustic environment are playfully transformed into free musical structures through guided conducting exercises. With the help of simple notation signs they can be used to create own compositions. Hints for games, experiments and music examples for children will round off the course.
Main topics:
– Aesthetic research
– Experimental music
– Cooperative behaviour when making music and promoting resilience
– Environmental experience and research-based learning
