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