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Creativity Workshops

Diana McIntosh gives stimulating creativity workshops for music/drama/art students (20 maximum). The students work together on a sound journey, using the human voice to create their own improvisations.  They will explore the infinite sound possibilities which everyone possesses.  Improvisations may be based on the student's own sound images, or on a given poem.  They will explore the feelings and emotions of the text, often choreographing those images.

The object is to explore the process of music-making, from the conception of sounds to their abstract notation, the relationships in a composition, and methods of performance. They will find themselves being composers, performers, conductors and critics of their own sound collages.

The workshop, which can be from 1 1/2 to 3 hours long, will help students listen more acutely, and to be more confident and spontaneous in expressing their own unique individuality and emotions.

Equipment required:

• A large open space with a piano
• Blackboard or large flip chart on easel
• Cassette tape recorder, microphone on stand, 1 cassette tape
• An assistant, if possible, to record each piece
  the group creates, and play it back to them

469 Kingston Cr., Winnipeg, Canada R2M   0V1
Tel: (204) 233-4163 Fax: (204) 237-3773

mcint@mb.sympatico.ca