1001 WAYS TO MAKE MUSIC MAGIC

CREATING A STRONG COMMUNITY THROUGH CREATIVE EXPRESSION

what is a “soundseed”?

This is a work-in-progress, a brainstorm to envision all the ways in which one might use music.

 

PARTICIPATORY GATHERINGS (FACILITATED OR NOT)

SING-ALONG / GROUP VOCALIZING

MUSICIANS LEADING SONGS WITH AUDIENCE

Pete Seeger

Beautiful Chorus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzL5JRC7N8Q

Kirtan / Mantra

 

MUSICIANS LEADING IMPROV SINGING WITH AUDIENCE

• Wild Roots (Amit Carmeli) http://www.amitcarmeli.com/videos-2/

• Bobby McFerrin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWriGiWw6i4

Arena-size:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uJZIF9TCs

• Doug Koyama

https://youtu.be/Wl9E7l5ydmU?t=3m57s

• Yagum Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4xXu-Be-O8

• Tayaka Circle Opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMsOX4Qn7eA

• With looping

SONG SHARE GATHERING - anyone can lead / teach a song

• Rise Up Singing / folk tradition

• Large regional gatherings

• Singing Alive

• Village Fire

• Song Village

ACOUSTIC SPACE CHOIR - singing in resonant spaces  - Tunnels / Stairwells / Large Pipes / Parking Garages / Caves / Empty Rooms / Silos

ELECTRIC SPACE CHOIR – using electronics and headphones for a group sound exploration

GROUP LOOP - pass the mic with a looper

CIRCLESONG IMPROVISATION (structured group improv / toning / exploration)

• With cipher - freestyle rap over circlesong

• In performance:  Singing Tribe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFHAf1vR9cE

• Combined with movement improv:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZUOvPQH9eU

SOUND POD – sharing sounds and chants for an improvised, co-created healing journey (with bowls, etc.)

Peggy Black:  http://soundpod.org/SoundPod/index.htm

SOUND BATH / SOUND HEALING - focusing sound on one or more people and / or animals / natural element / object

SINGING THE REVOLUTION

• Estonia (The Singing Revolution)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFHAf1vR9cE

• South Africa (Amandla! movie)

• Civil Rights Movement 1960’s

• Occupy Movement

 

MUSIC / SOUND GATHERINGS

LEADING STRUCTURED MUSICAL IMPROVISATION

• Music Rhythm Movement

Mary Knysh (http://www.rhythmicconnections.com/)

• Music for People

• Conductor leading group of musicians in performance

• Everyone Orchestra www.everyoneorchestra.com

• John Zorn - Cobra - Game Pieces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdNdSJUf_8I

• Yamatsuka Eye  - Drum Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXCCJIwLf2w

• The Singing Tribe with Joey Blake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFHAf1vR9cE

          

PUBLIC JAM SPACE - at festivals and other events

• The Hearth Tent - musicians hosting jam open jam space (http://www.humboldtmusic.com/listings/The_Hearth_Tent.htm)

• Hand out instruments as people arrive - everyone moving through space

DRUM CIRCLE

• Open / free-form

• With director

Drum Class

KITCHEN BAND (senior centers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do7OjOxx770

REVENANT SOUND - participatory found sound collaborations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDYzVNSwPic

MULTI-EVENT HAPPENING, DROP IN / DROP OUT

• John Cage at Stanford

• Art in Nature Festival - http://www.samavesha.org/productions/art-in-nature-festival

GATHER RANT - cathartic expression supported by others with music / sound

IN THE STREETS / PARKS

• RHYTHM RIOT - rhythm jam in outdoor setting

• Solo or group “performance” - playing on fences, cement, signs, etc.  

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0qs4_bY4vg

• Stomp

• Music for one apartment & Six Drummers

http://www.sixdrummers.com/about/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VGEwhBDOVU

• Participatory – distribute buckets, shakers, sticks, etc.

• INFILTRATION / BELLY OF THE BEAST - in a financial district, legislative district, or other “suit” venue

• Music Jam – gather people (in business attire) to “pose” as businesspeople having a drum jam, singalong, or ?, invite “real” businesspeople to join in

• ORGANIC ORCHESTRA - “playing nature” - using all found materials

• Vegetable Orchestra of Vienna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY

• CIRCLESONG GROUP  - invite others to join

• FLASHMOB

• IMPROV EVERYWHERE – Choreographed action

• INTERSECTION JAM - run out during “all pedestrian” crossing for brief action

• SILENT DISCO

• BUSKING

• PARADE / PROCESSION

• The Soft Parade - ambient instruments (wind chimes, didj, bowls, flute, voice) with costumed characters (fairies, stilters, greenman, etc), mini-sound healings, sound baths, carrying art on signs.  Hand out instruments / costumes

• HONK!

• CARNAVAL

• MARDI GRAS

SITE-SPECIFIC

• Healing rituals for ecologically-damaged site

• Healing rituals at site of injustice

• Encouraging awareness / senses at any site

• Imaginative Landscape - guiding audience through area

• Industrial decay

• Survival Research Laboratories - Warehouse

 

PERFORMANCE SOLO / GROUP

PERFORMANCE VENUES:

• House Concert (rotating houses?)

• Putnam Smith flyer -http://www.putnamsmith.com/house-concert.html

• Sleepover concert tour - stay in different houses for a few days - week - help out, music lessons, singing circles, concert, song share

• Gideon Irving

• I’ll come to your house / event / group

• Open Mic

TOURING

• BASED ON THEME - AT SPECIFIC SITES

• Nuclear reactors, old-growth forests, historic sites, sites of certain activity

• WALKING / BIKING TOUR

• http://www.masswalkingtour.org/mission.html

• The Pleasant Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsHiA4MvIy4

• www.thewalkingguys.com

ROAD SHOW TROUPE / CARAVAN  

JOYOUS REVOLUTION

MERRY PRANKSTERS

ECSTATIC DANCE TOUR

 

COMMUNITY CHOIR PERFORMANCE

• Structured Songs

• Choir!Choir!Choir! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RohCZhoQz68

• Improvised Creation

• The Singing Tribe with Joey Blake:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFHAf1vR9cE

MUSIC FOR DANCE / MOVEMENT CLASSES OR PERFORMANCES

• School / University classes

• Community classes

SINGING TELEGRAMS

• Birthday / Birth / wedding / Secret admirer /  Just because

• In Person or recording sent online by request

DOOR TO DOOR / CAROLING

MUSIC FOR DANCE JAMS

• ADM (ACOUSTIC DANCE MUSIC) RAVE (adm vs edm - signifying transition to sustainability)

MUSIC FOR SLEEP / DREAM JAM

PLAYGROUND TOUR

• Playing at local playgrounds for / with kids - bring instruments.  Music with stories if attention is focused.

ONE MAN SHOW

• Combining music / story / visuals / poetry / dance

SPOKEN WORD WITH MUSIC

• pairing musicians with poets / storytellers

solo w/ looping or live

• poetry slams / readings / Krump slam

• Real Play – group process using stories, movement, music

• Storytelling with music backing / interludes

CABARET (PERFORMANCES BASED ON THEME)

• Anyone can create a piece based on theme (music, theatre, spoken, movement)

SOUP’S ON!

• Structures for group improv performances - put your name in one or more hats (musician / mover / worder) or contribute themes, length of each piece also in hat.  Each piece names are selected out of each hat, as well as (possibly) theme and length.

MOVEMENT / SOUND THEATRE

• Shadow Dance (backlit behind screen) with music accompaniment

• Shadow Puppets

• Dance / Visual / Film Pieces with Music

• Movie with live “orchestra”

• Performance w triggered video

• Outdoor Walk-Through Performance – Site-Specific

• Art in Nature Festival - http://www.samavesha.org/productions/art-in-nature-festival/

PUBLIC HEALING RITUALS

• Planetary Dance

• Site-specific - at an ecologically-damaged area, or at the site of an injustice

• Spiral Dance – Starhawk / Reclaiming

MUSIC FOR HEALING ARTS CLASSES / EVENTS

• YOGA

• QI GONG / TAI CHI

• HEALING ARTS CLINICS

• GUIDED MEDITATION

HOSPICE

• END OF LIFE CHOIR  - “On the Breath of Song:  Guidance and Stories for the Practice of Bedside Singing for the Dying” - Kathy Leo

 

PERSONAL HEALING THROUGH SOUND

• Continuum

• Cymatics

• Toning / Sounding

• Mantras / Chants

• Gather Rant - cathartic group process where each person is given vocal support

KIDS

INSTANT CHOIR / THE PLAYGROUND

ASSEMBLIES

• Lead circlesong

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGYqi2NeIIQ

• Performance

• Do You Speak Djembe?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uB9xzYL1DU

• Percussion Discussion (http://percussiondiscussion.com)

• Music for one apartment & Six Drummers / Sound of Noise

http://www.sixdrummers.com/about/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VGEwhBDOVU

• performance with music (shadow puppet, drama, improv games)

PLAYGROUND TOUR

• Playing at local playgrounds for / with kids - bring instruments.  Music with stories if attention is focused.

MUSIC FOR BABY / KID DANCE JAM

ORGANIC ORCHESTRA - “playing nature” - using all found materials

 

ANIMAL COLLABORATION

Sounding with or for animals / nature

Nature recordings:

• Freesound.org / xenocanto.org /

• Ascension cricket slow-down recording

• Change speed of recording