Workshop on Creating Musical Objects: Reusing Materials and Recycling for Musical Instruments and Objects
About the Course
In this workshop, we will explore both the historical context and practical knowledge essential for working with tools and selecting materials for crafting musical creations. We will also delve into how human creativity and expression can intertwine with language, body form, philosophy, communication, and nature to shape the design and tune of an instrument.
Throughout the course, we will guide you in setting goals for your projects, with the culmination of the workshop being an exhibition and musical event where participants can showcase their work to the public.
Your Instructor
Mehdi Hesamizadeh
My approach to making instruments involves experimenting with alternative tuning systems, repurposing discarded instruments and exploring non-standard forms. When I design an instrument, I begin with a desire to craft a voice through material. The process often involves working with repurposed parts, recycled elements, or shaping raw materials to give new life to both the object and the sound it produces.
I see instrument design as a dialogue between material, sound and philosophy. The tuning and form of an instrument are intertwined with human experience and language, the body, communication and nature.
The whole process of making is an extension of composition. I learn tuning systems and explore new forms, always considering both the physical shape and the sound it's meant to make. Each instrument I make has its own reason for being - whether it follows traditional standards or arrives at them by accident.
Your Instructor
Andrey Terentev.
the intention of making sound objects is based on the will to search for the sound that can resonate with the inner world and express it to the outside. traditional western and eastern instruments often offer a variety of scales, but lack variety of voices or mobility. With the help of modern technologies it is possible to create almost any desired sound, but it is stuck in the ecosystem and has a huge disadvantage in the lack of material, medium. when the player comes into direct contact with an unusual instrument, he tries to explore all the possibilities it offers, instead of playing scales, notes, the player plays with the instrument, plays on the instrument, finds unusual ways to make it sound. The listener is involved in this journey, hearing this searching, finding, expressing. Because most of these instruments are played with sound rather than notes, there's a huge variety of expression and it doesn't require any skill.
Workshop on Creating Musical Objects: Reusing Materials and Recycling for Musical Instruments and Objects
Price
€250
Duration
8 Days