In the third term of the programme, the music activities are based on instrumental practice. The participants will use musical instruments of different pitches and timbres, small percussion instruments, xylophones, glockenspiels, keyboards, drums, tambourines, melodicas, kalimbas, hang drums, bells etc. As well, specially adapted instruments for people with motor difficulties due to brain damage will be included, such as the peitoque. The activities will be based on two principals: on one hand, experimentation that makes both directed and free musical improvisation possible, and on the other hand, the opportunity to play in a group creating “combos”. Instrumental improvisation allows for the design of flexible activities that are adapted to the abilities of each person and in a spontaneous way they experience the flow of being part of a creative activity. With this final workshop the intention is that the participants feel capable of discovering the artist within and exploring their creativity.
Activities to carry out:
- Rhythmic memories of songs previously used in other terms, from different genres.
- Body percussion, exploration through movement and vocal games based on words.
- Learn to play traditional rhythms from Galicia and Portugal.
- Exploration with different timbres and musical textures through auditory discrimination games and the creation of sound landscapes.
- Group composition: create a sound piece in a group, with the possibility of using contemporary, symbolic or invented symbols; the use of colors for the bars of the glockenspiel.
- We played with background music or already known songs.
Directed improvisation: gestural, using geometric shapes, rhythmic soundpainting…. - Musical surprises: Introducing fascinating instruments: Txalaparta, txistu, hang, violin, harmonica… and biographies of instrumentalists.
- Recycled instruments: building instruments using recycled materials and playing them.
- Musicalisation of texts such as haikus, poems, shorts…
Given by: Alejandro Vargas, Tomás Rábano, Ana Conceição, Beatriz Rola.