Stele

A tailor-made space

by SIMONE FRANCIA
    School sections
    • Lower secondary school
    Educational subjects
    • Composition
    • soundscapes
    • Vocalism

Stele

The laboratory is addressed to a group of trumpet students. In particular, the main aim was the integration of the so called non-conventional sounds produced by the instruments in an Electric-Acoustic composition especially made for students with different instrumental abilities and musical competences. Retracing the intuitions of compositors such as Cage, Mauricio Kagel, etc. who have the merit of having redefined the role of environmental sound, the laboratory exploited the sound resources which students had the opportunity to explore submerging themselves in a tailor-made electric-acoustic environment. This choice was motivated by a pedagogical approach aiming at enhancing the artistic aspect of the didactic experience and turn it into a means of aesthetic education.

Work tools

The technical realisation requires: a digital recorder, a granular synthesizer, a software for audio editing, a sampled sound collection, an amplification system and possibly a bass drum, and a temple block.

The physical space must comfortably contain the group of students in order to favour optimal listening.

Educational purposes

The skills, goals and training objectives selected by the teacher for this experience are shown below.

Competences
    Listening
    • Sound perception
    • Interpretation
    Production
    • Composition
    Reading and Writing
    • Use of unconventional analogic music notation
GOALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETENCES [...]
    Lower secondary school
    Listening
    • Understands and evaluates events, materials, and musical works recognising their meanings, also in relation to his/her own musical experience and the different historical/sociological context.
    Production
    • Actively participating in music experiences through the execution and the interpretation of vocal and instrumental music pieces belonging to different genres and cultures.
    • Capacity to conceive and create music and multimedia messages, also though improvisation or collective elaboration processes, using also IT tools, in critical confrontation with models belonging to the musical heritage
Educational targets

The student:

  • distinguishes differences in timbre and dynamics of sound
  • places "unconventional" acoustic resources in a larger formal structure
  • expresses musical ideas by shaping sound effects, using an analog notation code
  • writes and reads musical sequences using a notation code, proposed by the composer and partly agreed with the class, in which the shape of the sign has analogies with the direction of sound, so that one can refer to the other

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Commenti inseriti
Slide "Stele "
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Link utili
Quadri elettroacustici" (omaggio a Ligeti e Stockhausen) Click here
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BLOG DEL SUONO Click here
Structure music on pendolum wave Click here
Una finestra sul cortile Click here
Materiali finalizzati all'azione didattica
Partitura stele Download
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