Electronic music workshop for kids (5 to 12 years old) by Lukatoyboy [RS].
// 24/01 > Venue:
KKB > 13–18:00,
// Public presentation > 25/01 > 13–14:00
// In cooperation with the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Music School in Bethanien.
// Maximum particpants: 12
// Admission: free
// Registration >
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Today artists are more than ever responsible for helping to developing their public and being engaged in the aesthetic education of younger people. The aim of this workshop is therefore to give children (5 – 12 years old) and their parents initial insights into the possibilities for making music with simple and low-cost electronic instruments. How can electronic sounds be produced and arranged? How can one improvise with electronic instruments? How can acoustic instruments be combined with electronic ones? What is sampling? Which beats belong to which music genres? How does one make a song? How does one play along with electronic instruments? What has to be considered in the case of a live appearance? The workshop answers these and similar questions through playfully attempts using simple, battery operated and, therefore, portable consumer devices such as the Nintendo DS game console, small synthesisers and samplers, or the Korg Kaospad.
In a second part, the workshop leader Lukatoyboy goes into the possibilities of self-made music software for the Nintendo DS console and demonstrates examples of freely available programmes (CellDS, DS Sampling Keyboard, BlipTracker, GlitchDS, Repeater, SoundCells...). In this way, the children and their parents obtain initial insights into the concepts of free software – in the end, for many the Nintendo console is their first computer.
At the end of the workshop, joint music performances by the children resulting from the exercises in the workshop and also a group improvisation with all of the participants will be presented.
Lukatoyboy (RS)Lukatoyboy, real name Luka Ivanović, is a musician, sound designer, journalist and radio editor from Belgrade. Lukatoyboy’s main sound/music activities include producing & performing electro-acoustic improvised music using feedback, field recordings and small iPod FM transmitters. He is teaching music workshops on "circuit bending" and does electronic music workshops for kids. Since February 2007 he is the co-organizer of the improvE nights in Belgrade, encounters of electronic musicians and improvisers, which also serves as a host for the local Share-events. As a journalist he writes about music, pop culture, the internet and technology for various magazines and websites in Serbia.
> www.myspace.com/lktyby
