Music-making and improvisation workshop
Catherine Milliken has published the best recipes from ten years of the "Klangspuren lautstark" children's workshop as a book.
Here are the fruits of ten years of work. Since 2008, composer and oboist Catherine Milliken has been organizing the annual "Klangspuren lautstark", a special workshop as part of the Klangspuren festival in Tyrol, which is aimed at children and young people aged 8 to 18. They compose, improvise and perform in groups. The "best of" arrangements are now available in the form of practical instructions and concepts and invite you to play. The starting point for the composition process is often a picture ("Strange Worlds") or a text ("What I like to do with friends"). Noise, represented by graphic notations, is mixed with melodies, rhythm sequences and chords. There are also composed songs. The range of themes and forms of presentation extends from opera to colors to radio plays. The basic idea is always to work together on a piece suitable for performance. And it is always about finding new sounds and expanding the musical imagination.
The book is aimed at music teachers who are looking for materials and concepts for improvising and composing with children and young people.
Catherine Milliken: Klangspuren lautstark - Aktives Musizieren und Komponieren mit Kindern und Jugendlichen, 120 p., € 19.90, ConBrio, Regensburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-940768-75-9
