The mini band

Sierra de Sones 2024

We started weaving synergies between the village's mini band and students from the CEIP Aznaitín.

This workshop belongs to the proyect: Sierra de Sones Festival

With the premise of creating synergies between the Sierra de Sones festival and the inhabitants of Torres, we initiated a process of musical creation to create a dialogue between the music that is part of the life stories of the residents of Torres and the musical repertoire of the young section of the "Asociación cultural musical Pila Pellenda" or as it is known in the village "La mini-banda". In the 2024 edition we have worked with students of the E.S.O. of the CEIP Aznaitín and part of the musical repertoire of "La mini-banda" with the idea of presenting the result in a concert-inauguration in the festival where we will join this musical dialogue with personal experiences of the participants and their relationship with the music and the town of Torres.

explores the loops and pieces in
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working at the CEIP Aznaitín

Workshop development

The work process was divided into several visits, during the first one we collected sound materials, musical life stories and other stories or materials that could arise. The students worked previously at CEIP Aznaitín with Marido, the music teacher, thinking and selecting important songs in their lives and researching in turn on significant songs in their family contexts. A song important to you in your life or to someone in your family, why is it important to you? What memories does it bring back? Where did you hear it? What do you feel when you listen to it? During the second visit, the students created loops by editing the audio of both their own songs and those selected by their family contexts. With this material we created musical pieces that we mixed with several songs selected from the musical repertoire of the Mini-band, with the idea of playing live Band and students at the opening of the Festival.

Mini band + antropoloops band

Concert

After working on the loops with the class group of CEIP Aznaitín, to prepare the concert we went to Torres five days before the festival and continued the process with a small group of students interested in participating in the concert. The idea was to create a small show where we remixed live music pieces created by the students, part of the repertoire of the mini-bands played live and interviews with the students and their families about their music and their relationship with the town. The work was intense and fun, trying to create in record time a scenic meeting point between the students and the Mini-band, for this we used midi controllers, and even remixed the repertoire of the band making music with their music stands connected with Makey Makey.

The "Banda Escuela de ACM Pila Pellenda and students of CEIP Aznaitín de Torres, all under the name of BANDA ANTROPOLOOPS, made a formidable sample of their work developed in different meetings during the last course. This young band had the courage to share the stage with Pony Bravo and Música Prepost on the same day, forming part of the line-up with the rest of the professional artists of the second edition. The main objectives of this beautiful meeting point will be the enhancement of the musical memory of our town, the development of an active youth audience around the festival and the consolidation of the @acm.pilapellenda as an essential cultural agent of the Torres Festival." (festival excerpt)

Credits

design and development: Fran Torres and Ruben Alonso

institution: Sierra de Sones Festival (Torres Town Hall)

participants: students 1st and 2nd ESO of CEIP Aznaitín + ACM Pila Pellenda

place: Torres (Jaén)

info: web festival

acknowledgments: To David, director of the music band for his help and openness, to Mariado, music teacher at CEIP Aznaitín for facilitating our work with the students at all times. Thanks to the CEIP management for welcoming us.

year: 2024