release date: October 29th, 2012
available format: 3” Cd-r
catalogue#: orl12
title: Children’s improvised music workshop
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A team of children’s creative abilities enthusiasts collaborate with young musicians, providing all necessary amenities and freedom for them to interact with each other as members of a free improvised band.
The team
Tasos Stamou, workshop leader
Elsa Kundig, creative assistant
Kostis Bageorgos, sound engineer
Yannis Iasonidis, communications
Content
The Children’s improvised music workshop (ages 6-12) takes place in a series of sessions through which the opportunity for creative musical expression in an educational and entertaining manner is overt. Children actively participate in the process of musical synthesis by co-operating with each other in small teams and by improvising on a number of available instruments (both children’s and musical, acoustic and electronic). Through the use of on-the-spot auto looping technique, they become aware of the sonic dimension and effect of their participation in a real concert as a collective process.
Background
Tasos Stamou is a sound artist involved in electroacoustic composition and improvised music, currently based in London. During the past few years he explored and utilized several different mediums of original sonic creation into various recordings and performances; arrangements with self-modified sound toys and found objects, electroacoustic equipment (analogue synthesizer, DIY electronics, computer applications), vivid sonic performances and sound installations. Mostly as a multi-instrumentalist of free-improvised music, he has presented live sets in solo projects and in collaboration with other experimentalists and improvisors (London Improvisers Orchestra, Evan Parker, Adam Bohman, Valerio Tricoli, Kuupuu & Lau Nau, Nikos Veliotis) around venues and festivals for innovative music. Since 2008 he runs “kukuruku recordings”, an independent label for electroacoustic ephemeral sound works. He is currently involved in music composition and sound design for theater and film.
Elsa Kundig is a psychologist and a musician. Over 2012 she completed her postgraduate studies on ethnomusicology at Soas University of London, parallel to her storytelling course at Sussex University. She loves children and has worked as an assistant music pedagogist for various organisations such as the capell’art camp in Switzerland and Community Focus in London. During 2011 she elaborated on her ethnomusicology thesis in the community music center for youth and families in Metaksourgio, Athens. She is also a cello player.
Details on the release
200 gms coloured* paper. White Cd-r. Artwork design by Tasos Stamou. Edition of 100 copies.
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