Part of: Big Bang Festival 5

Nomad Project: “Touching Sound”

Bert Bernaerts & Tijl Pyrijns with a group of school children

Dates

Prices

Free admission with entrance tickets

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Saturday
Time
12:30 | 16:30
Venue
Exhibition Hall -1
Day
Sunday
Time
12:30 | 16:30
Venue
Exhibition Hall -1

Information

Addressed to

Age guidance: 5+

Cost

Free admission with entrance tickets

Duration

20-25 minutes

Children and teenagers work with instruments and objects to massage the audience with sound.

Massage of the ears

“Touching Sound” is a workshop that explores the physical experience of sound and music. First, the participants - a group of kids and teenagers between the age of 7 and 12 years old - learn the concept of “massage sonore” through working together for a week. They learn to manipulate sound objects and music instruments to create a musical environment that is experienced as a "massage of the ears" by the audience.


As a second step, musicians Tijl Pyrijns and Bert Bernaerts integrate the musical background of the participants to co-create a composition with silence, minimal sounds and spatialization as key elements. This composition is performed by all the participants of the group on the Big Bang Festival in Athens.

Credits

  • Drums/percussion

    Tijl Pyrijns

  • Trumpet/double bass

    Bert Bernaerts

  • With

    a group of school children 7-15 years old and the musician Ivi Papathanasiou