Luca had enough: “this Is our piece or yours?”, he asks provocatively loud in the room. The Junior at looks his classmates, but everyone knows who is meant. Genoel von lilienstern namely, the composer, with the upper-level course, “music Ensemble” of the Wilmersdorfer Friedrich-Ebert-gymnasium works at “cross-sound” together. Time is of the essence, in two days, the 25 students will introduce their jointly-developed piece for the first Time the other participants of the project – therefore, the professional has intervened today in the creative process than usual.
He has made proposals for a kind of noise-like prelude, for a tonal compression here, an acoustic spreading there. His ideas are helpful, his tone was Matey – but grew up with Luca the displeasure. First, he has whispered only with Elizabeth, who is at the Keyboard next to him, then the two retreated to a corner, while Genoel von lilienstern with the players of the Xylophone, the triangle and the rattling was honing the Details. Eventually, however, Luca had to make air. However, there is no revolt of the youth. Not like some of his also, in his opinion, further votes against, the composer responds confidently, the teacher draws the mood back into constructive channels.
The creative process of the group experience
Better than this afternoon in the new building of the Ebert-Gymnasium at the Wilhelmsaue it could not run. Because here educationally that is exactly what happened, including the past 15 years, in the context of the Maerzmusik festival, organized “cross-sound”project, young people want to encourage: freedom for your claim and you then endure it. “Experimental composing at school” is the explanatory subtitle of the Initiative of Ursula Brandstätter, Daniel Ott, and Kerstin Wiehe able to participate, for each of the five different possible primary and secondary schools from five districts of Berlin. In the ideal case, comes out even a lot more than “just” a composition.
If, in fact, the creative process of the group experience, the Adolescent in their development. Much is lamented about the fact that in Berlin, the music teaching fails so often in elementary schools even up to 80 percent, says the German music Council. However, if the hours are held, enforces the knowledge of the curriculum framework is the placement of mostly dry theory.
The counterparty: Genoel von lilienstern (left), Elizabeth and Luca photo: Kerstin Wiehe
Whether it belongs today to the General education that high school students know the circle of fifths by heart, chord inversions dominate and by the Violin and bass key move is debatable. Anyone who plays an Instrument, learn it anyway by the way, who’s playing one, feels more deterred if he languages, in addition to the foreign a complete new grammar to learn. This is the great advantage of music is that you can also sing without note knowledge enthusiastically in the choir or with friends by the camp fire with the guitar.
Yes, anyone who dares can even compose. This exhilarating experience to convey “cross-sound”. Everything is allowed here, because with all the sounds you can produce, from the eggs cutter about Bicycle bells to balloons. It also goes without any help at all, just with the vocal chords by gurgling, Croaking, whistling, or Imitation of Animal sounds and everyday noises.
Luca, Elizabeth, Halide, Mara, Jannika, Joaquin, Hannah, Laila, Franka, Sina, Laura, Madleen, Alice, Sungtae, Paul, Greta, Leonie, Rasmus, Valentina, Lili, Oranus, Vincent, Loan, and Alissa from the Ebert-Gymnasium have sound for your “Cross”- composition selected by a very conventional set of instruments. Because the equipment of your music area in this direction has a lot to offer. The title of the piece, “Missing synth” leads on a wrong track. Because electronic Sounds are quite in it, combined with an analog generated sounds, from the drum over the Tambourine to the marimba bars, which are painted with violin bows.
group work photo: Kerstin Wiehe
Ten double-hours, the participants have to develop their composition, in addition to their teacher, Thomas Vömel, and the composer Genoel von lilienstern also, two students from the University of the arts. Officially only in an Advisory capacity, because their imagination is to let the pupils for yourself to flourish, after the first “pulse Phase” by the adults.
not everyone strives in the same direction as in the discussion of what has been Achieved. One of the young women’s wishes for a “harmonious conclusion”, a male teenager pleads for more contrast, another student suggests, to recite the sounds of the beginning of an explanatory Text.
Not a neo-classical Kitsch came out of the group work, nothing Epigonales has in any style direction, but a truly stand-alone piece that develops organically, always atmospherically dense moments. Sure, the professional will immediately notice where you can improve something, could be refined – but just as the Wilmersdorfer high school students as personalities are not yet fully developed, it is perhaps even more convincing, even if their collective Opus contains portions of the work-in-progress.
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