stimulating creativity through music

The Pangeia Instrumentos education programme aims to:

stimulate creativity | encourage sharing through team work | develop musical and artistic skills | raising self-confidence

Our program offers two types of workshops. The musicians workshop and the instrument building workshop:

The musicians workshop with the Pangeia Instrumentos instruments where the participants are given a simple set of instructions on how to play the instruments and are invited to play and interact through games and rhythmic exercises. Simple recordings with a laptop computer running Sound Studio or ProTools are also made in order to give an insight into the current trends in technology that allows a visual contact with sound. A final performance is staged with all the participants and a CD with the various group recordings is given at the end.

The construction workshop is a chance for each participant to build his/her own musical instrument. The instruments range from the very simple to the more complex using materials such as bamboo, gourds, woods from sustainable forests and environment friendly materials.

The Pangeia Instrumentos education programme has been implemented in cultual centers, schools, colledges and organizations both national and international and for all age groups.

WORKSHOPS IN IRELAND

We were invited to do workshops at the An Cosan Glas Sculpture Trail in Donegal county on the coast of Ireland.

Children came to a Mongolian tent called a Yurt and built the "roda" and the "kissange". They painted it and we went out in the beautiful environment of the dunes to build living sound installation where we all participated. Check the pictures.

WORKSHOPS IN THE UK

DESIGN AND MUSIC FOR DIALOGUE (Jan/March) - The Pangeia Instrumentos education programme was extensively implemented this year in Lincolnshire, UK, during its exhibition in the main gallery at The Hub Centre for Design and Craft Making in Sleaford in partnership with North Kesteven District Council. The workshops consisted in expanding the potential of the exhibition in the main gallery of the centre by transforming it into a performance space and exploring the creative dialogue resulting in the interaction of the participants with the multiplayer instruments. The participants would follow trails that would take them from one instrument to another thus creating their own performance and music in small groups. Then they would gather in the workshop room on the fourth floor of The Hub Center and build their own musical instrument.

Here is a comment by a teacher : "I could see how my class progressed from playing for fun - and to make as much noise as possible - to more sensitive playing, really listening and responding to their playing partners. As audiences, they practised their skills of active listening and made many thoughtful comments. Moreover, the feeling of quiet intimacy and connection between us all as we sat around the totem harp, playing and listening to each other (for a sustainable length of time) was the most satisfying." Ruth Dale

and here is one by a student: "I didn't know what to play but when you sit in front of the totem harp, it just comes to you." Connor Willis-Humbles (age 10)

Workshops were done with Kirkby La Thorpe School, Kesteven & Sleaford High School, Billinghay Primary School, Our Lady of Good Council School and the MACA Music group.   Shorter music workshops, guided tours and demonstrations on Saturdays and Sundays also took place.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE, TORONTO, CANADA (July) - We've been invited for a number of music and instrument construction workshops at The Harbourfront Centre, Canada's biggest cultural centre, integrated in the programme of their summer festival All Over The Map: The Language of Music and their summer camp programme Harbourkids. Victor Gama has also performed on the 16th and 17th and the Pangeia Instrumentos project was shown at the York Quay Gallery as part of the Sounds Like Exhibition in Toronto.

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