mfabc2017: Musichildren'17 University of aveiro Porto, Portugal, October 19-21, 2017 |
Abstract registration deadline | March 26, 2017 |
Submission deadline | March 26, 2017 |
Children's improvisation between sounds and abstract moving images
Background
Sounds can be perceived by sight and can suggest imagery, energy, fluency and periodicity. In the same way, abstract images or graphic signs can evoke intensity, rhythm, movement features. The activity focused on the transposition of improvisation between sound and moving images could be a tool to Enhance the creativity of beginner player in discovering the musical features of the instrument.
Aims
The aim of the activity is to develop the child's ability to play their instrument in a creative and expressive way, according the technical skills acquired. The hypotesis is that the challenge to search a musical analogy of the graphic code by improvisation, brings the child to a greater awareness of the different musical features of the instrument
Procedure
The activity is Carried out with groups of children aged 7 to 10 in different environments: private music schools, pre-instrumental course at Conservatory or music.
Children are asked to observe the images and their features such as timbre and lightness, intensity of the colors, dynamism and rhythm of the movements of figures and object and their general meaning, and to improvise a musical transposition with the instrument. To Enhance the creativity of children they were lead to observe the images stimulated by questions such as: according your impression, how are the lines of the picture: continuous or broken and short? How do you think could be the sounds? Smooth or detached? Loud or soft? Fast or slow? The image evokes a feeling of velocity or slowly? In the first phase, children are lead to improvise on to descriptive transpositions, gradually, The More abstract images, allow children to improvise in A More expressive and evocative way using all the technical skills and musical features they have acquired. This activity can be adapted to different levels of instrumental skills.
Conclusion
Transposition between abstract moving drawing and sounds have helped children to make playing the instrument more likely for them, thus enriching their experience and creativity with the instrument. Through this activity the children developed their creativity on the violin through a non-conventional way of playing focusing on the quality and features of the sound.
Children explored new technical skills of the instrument and the challenge to improvise a new soundtrack by themselves, has improved the ability to perform opposite musical features. They acquired a wide range of differentiations on dynamic, articulation and timbre of the sounds.