THE SOUND OF MUSIC IV
ICELAND 2018
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MUSIC
AS GENERATIONS OF EXPERIENCES
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Music
as a context of life.
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Music as a tool while working with
several different kinds of groups.
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The creative process of music has an
interdisciplinary character that brings the opportunity to unite different
disciplines.
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The most vital part of music is providing
interactive, social and relationships actions.
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Music as a collective meeting place as a process to experience with
others.
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PERCUSSION
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No matter where you are born or what music you are
listening, drums are present everywhere.
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You don't need any specialist or expensive
instrument either - anything goes.
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Recycled
instruments: urban environment provides tons
of cool sounding material resources and found objects. It improves
creativity, and building your own instrument is a challenge to anyone. Once you make it you will feel so proud of
your instrument.
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Drum circles are great ethnic and cultural bridges; they
harmoniously bring diverse people, instruments and musical styles
together.
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It promotes
sociability, it makes you happy, it´s fun, it helps to focuss or to relax, increases coordination……
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THE
BODY AS AN INSTRUMENT
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CLAPPING: Clapping the hands remains
one of the most ancient gestures, bringing into play those eminently
effective mechanisms to produce sound, palms struck one against the other.
All over the world, the quasi-spontaneous gesture, the sound that changes
according to the positions of the hands provides the most common rhythmic
accompaniment to the voice, as well as being used to show enthusiasm in the
form as applause- an instinctive action which has an invigorating effect on
the whole body by stimulating parts that are especially sensitive.
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HANDS STRIKING DIFERENTS PARTS OF THE BODY: Another widespread practice
consists in striking the hands against other parts of the body, used directly
as resonators. Certain traditional dances used for the purpose of making
time.
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FEET: It would be hard to imagine a more
primitive form of music than stamping on the ground pulsating rhythms lie at
a very heart of the human experience.
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BODY: Sometimes the body itself s
metamorphosed into an instrument, more specially a rhythm instrument. Concerned to make rhythms louder and more
emphatic, humans soon moved on from objects as an extension of the body.
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BODY PERCUSSION: As a useful tool for
creating music in a group. It is
incredibly accessible; the human body is an instrument every participant
possesses. It is also valuable for internalizing fundamental musical
concepts. It provides an inspiring way to explore
sound, rhythm and the physical relationship with music and encourage working
out well with a group.
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PERCUSION AND ITS SOUND ARCHITECTURE
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MUSIC
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Music is part of history and cultural heritage of peoples around
the world.
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Music,
like all artistic manifestations, is a cultural product.
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All
cultures transmit and express their thoughts and emotions using music.
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Music
is a mode of expression that is related to a social community.
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One
of the virtues of music it is that it has the power of meeting, the sense of
community, creates group identity, favoring the sense of belonging to a
group. Therefore, it should be an essential tool in socials fields while
working in groups.
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Music
that not suffer from domestication process, possesses a cosmic dimension, it
has a liberating function, an evocative force and encourage communication.
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LISTENING
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First of all, in order to feel and understand
music we have to listen to it, but we have to listen it with our whole body,
we have to practice and improve in our active listening.
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SILENCE
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Music and silence go along together hand to
hand, when the music sounds the silences always are there like a lake where
the sounds float and move.
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Silences
fill the spaces between the sounds.
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They
print emotions to music, joy, euphoria, sadness, melancholy, love,
happiness…..
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TIMBRE
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Is
the particular and unique voice of each instrument or sound.
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It’s
the key that help us to differentiated different types of sounds.
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Sounds
have different colors and the timbre help us to recognize from witch source
sounds come.
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PULSE
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Is
the heart of music
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It is life, movement and monotony
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When
you tap with your foot while listening music you are feeling the pulse
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The
pulse measures spaces of time
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It
is the one that control the speed of music
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TEMPO
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Is
the speed, how fast or slow the music goes
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RHTHYM
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Is
action
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Almost everything we do in life always
does go with rhythm
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If there is rhythm there must be contrast,
played with weak and strong accents, otherwise it would sound like a machine
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DINAMICS
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Intensity
in which one or several sounds can be played
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It
depends on the force with witch the sound body is executed and the distance
of the receiver of the sound source.
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NOTE THINK ABOUT PRACTICAL EXERCISES FOR EACH OF THE DESCRIBED ELEMENTS
