Claire RENARD Intermedia animator, new music componist, CERM (F)
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MUSICAL GESTURE For all people engaged in musical awakeness especially for children, age 3-12, my educational course "Musical Gesture" is an extended set of plays provoking the abilities of creating sound from voice, body or instruments.
Through his gesture-listening, the child explores as a musician the duration, discovers the wide field of sound sources, understands the phenomenon of musical organisation, starting at the level of experiences which evoke both musical creation and active understanding of historical music pieces, and the re-invention of dramatic / choreographical gesture.
EXPERIMENT SOUND GESTURE 
MUSICAL GAME EXPERIMENT=
A confrontation with the sound source et its musical possibilities.
SOUND vs GESTURE =
Sound consists only in gesture, in sound movement arranged by a vocal or instrumental gesture. We can say that the power of gesture provokes a tension to the sound source. Without gesture, without movement, there isn't a live sound at all. The tension demonstrates the dynamic aspects of sound in time: attack, decay, release.
MUSICAL GAME:
The organisation of the dynamic effects in time evokes music. The rythmique aspect is born through the interaction (game) between these tensions.
While experimenting with different dynamics of sound by gesture, the child's conscience of musical gesture is awaken, the primal conscience of musical apprehension.
PRACTISING: VOICE & BODY GAME PASS THE SOUNDBALL Children stay right up in a circle: they play the ball, the imaginary one: the soundball, to each other. In the same time they gesticulate with their arms, they make a sound according to the flighing traject of the ball.
Appreciating the interesting part, the soundball game consists in instant answers of all children. They have to pass the sound immediately, almost automatically, varying the rhythm of launching and the velocity of dynamics.
This game is a practise on dynamic sounds and energetic sequences.
Further information in my book: Le geste musical. Hachette/Van de Velde, 1982.
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