Class No 917 – fee $70 per day
SING OUT PLAY ON – intercultural singing & music making
Tutor: Julian Raphael
We have this wonderful opportunity to discover a wide range of music through song and rhythm as we interact with a variety of the world’s cultures through their music and dance. The programme will bring together elements from children’s songs and games, rituals and celebrations and songs of work and protest. Our voices and bodies will become the tools to help us discover how melody, harmony and rhythm combine to create not only different musical styles and genres, but also how music can become a powerful medium for expression and emotion.
You will be given the chance to explore a range of vocal techniques and to experiment with natural harmony and improvisation and there will an assortment of percussion instruments we can use to generate accompaniments. Over the course of the week we shall encounter music from South Africa, Zimbabwe and West Africa, North & South America, Europe, Georgia and the Pacific and participants will be given resources that they can use in other contexts and situations.
Julian (B.Mus, M.Phil, PTCS) is a highly experienced community musician, music educator, composer and performer who works alongside children and grown-ups with a philosophy and teaching style that is influenced and informed by music-making of the world’s cultures. He is director of Community Music Junction which has been operating in Wellington for the past twelve years, enabling both children and adults to sing together and learn a variety of musical instruments. Julian is a student and teacher of music from the Shona culture of Zimbabwe and is one of a very few New Zealand facilitators of African marimba and mbira.