do not work yet on mobile devices, try accessing it from a computer to play loops with the keyboard... 😬
The project was designed as an introductory experience to music creation for 11-12 year old students, in a non-formal educational context and using an approach based on remixing and electronics. The main idea was to offer students some initial tools and approaches so that they could explore and develop their own projects accompanied by us. We intended to create a space for playful exploration collaborating with fellow artists to promote the participation of girls in the workshop and to provide them with more egalitarian gender references.
The remix, and specifically, the creation of electronic music with traditional sources and inspirations, has been the central idea that has articulated both the work from the sampling and musical composition with loops and the approach with DJ techniques.
The project has had an exploratory and prototyping character: while we have advanced in the design of the sessions, we have been developing the digital tools that the students were using with play.antropoloops. The goal was to create a simple tool that would allow them to sample, compose musical pieces and perform them.
Some messages recorded at the beginning of the project as a time capsule...
The project has been developed once a week on Thursdays from 16:30 to 18:00h. Initially the development was going to be 20 sessions, but as the workshop progressed and we saw the needs and lack of computers at home by the students, we considered it appropriate to make 5 extra sessions of reinforcement, especially in the final phase of development of musical projects. These sessions were intended for students who did not have a computer at home, but the attendance has been general.
In total, 28 sessions were held (23 per calendar + 5 reinforcement sessions) plus the final presentation day of the musical projects, held in the school playground on Saturday, June 26th. The sessions were organized in two phases, you can see the complete development here:
How do we imagine the cover of our album? What images could represent me or my music? To answer these questions, we invited artist Daniel Alonso to explore connections between musical and graphic concepts with the students. We developed a process of creating these imagined covers, an open dialogue between the students and the artist that evolved alongside their musical projects.
As a result of RAWA club's teaching experience in the project, Victoria Brause, who is not only a DJ but also a photographer, developed a photographic project for her Master's thesis for the Escuela Apertura (Málaga).
The photographic project is about the transforming personal experience in a classroom, which gives rise to a portrait of identities, of instants between childhood and adolescence. Alborescencia explores their heterogeneous worlds, still far from the prejudiced interference of adulthood, and where the portrait is also a testimony of a relationship, of a period of encounters and recognitions beyond the generational gaps"
Victoria Brause (Uruguay/Sevilla)
design and development: Victoria Brause (Guacha Sabelo DJ), Hebe Kiebooms (DJ Hidrataccioni), Eloisa Cantón, Fran Torres and Rubén Alonso.
software development: Daniel Gómez
institution: Creative Europe + ICAS Ayuntamiento de Sevilla
place: Sevilla
Video and collages: Daniel Alonso
photographs: Victoria Brause and Concha Laverán
promoted by: Creative Europe + ICAS
year: 2021
