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Português *** Castellano
* Drum Circle
* "Sons & Sucatas" project (sound and trash)
* Percussion Workshops
* Training Courses
ReCiclo dos Ritmos promotes playful activities, of musical and corporal expression, towards the awaking of creativity and the conscience for the importance of recycling.
Our projects allow the participation of all type of people and all age bands.
Our starting point is the idea that it is important that each one of us has the conscience and the responsibility to help to create a better world.
Therefore our philosophy is Recycling...
Recycle the mind.
Recycle the attitudes.
Recycle the world.
Music with percussion is recycling this idea. Veja os últimos 5 tópicos:
Ciclo dos Ritmos consists on a circle where people join together in order to play percussion instruments.
Drum circle is an activity practised in the whole world and since very remote times. The Ciclo dos Ritmos adds to this idea the importance of recycling in today’s world, using music (percussion) as an activity to educate and stimulate all the people.
Ciclo dos Ritmos motivates all the participants to play together a percussion instrument and to awake their creativity. Music is improvised at the moment under the orientation of a percussionist.
Ciclo dos Ritmos is a glad and amused, dynamic and tolerant event, where percussion is used as a way to join people at a one moment of much pleasure and conviviality.
How it works…
Generally there are percussion instruments available for all (both conventional instruments and instruments made through recycling). But also there is space and opening for those who want to bring their own percussion instrument.
The participants, seated or standing up, are usually put in a circle, each one with his/her percussion instrument. With the orientation of the percussionists, some rhythmic games are executed, always with much space for improvisation. Body and voice are also used as instrument...
Duration
About one hour.
Target Public
Ciclo dos Ritmos is an activity open to all: Children/ Youngsters / Adults / Seniors
The contents can be adapted according to the ages and interests of the participants, including people with special educative needs.
What we need!?
General Necessities:
Your spontaneity and will to participate.
That You take care of the material so that others can have the same chance.
That You actively participates in Ciclo dos Ritmos, feeling an integrant part of the group.
You can bring an instrument and much joy
Specific Necessities:… To be supplied by the contracting entity:
Transport
Chairs preferably without arms
Adequate Space
Adequate sound equipment, according to the space and the number of participants.
... To be supplied by us:
Percussion Instruments
Preparation and disposal of the instruments. |
How it works…
This activity is idealized for an open space opened for about 300 people.
Generally there are instruments available for all (both conventional instruments and instruments made through recycling). But also there is space and opening for those who want to bring or build their own percussion instrument.
The participants, seated or standing up, are usually put in a circle, each one with his/her percussion instrument. With the orientation of the percussionists, some rhythmic games are executed, always with much space for improvisation. Body and voice are also used as instrument.
Duration
One hour and a half non-stop.
Target Public
Ciclo dos Ritmos is an activity open to all: Children/ Youngsters / Adults / Seniors
Planning/ Requirements:
Adequate space
- definition of the square/street/public space where the event will occur
- decoration of the space
Logistic support
- chairs without arms, in order not to create obstacles for those who play
- disposal of the chairs in circle, in 4 spaced slices
- central stage, with 2m x 2m of area and 40 cm of height
- tents to shelter the material
Sound Equipment
- the sound equipment has to be adjusted to space and number of participants in order to guarantee the sonorous quality of the event (sound system with minimum power of 2 x 300 Watts RMS)
- auricular microphone without wire for the facilitator (Paulinho Kaiymã)
- 4 microphones with tripod for sound of the base instruments
Human Resources
- main facilitator (Paulinho Kaiymã) + another collaborator
- 4 collaborators for support of Ciclo dos Ritmos (percussionists or percussion students)
- sound technician (at responsibility of the organizer entity)
- minimum of 10 watchmen (for support, disposal of the instruments, to invite the passer-bys to participate in the Ciclo dos Ritmos , to direct the people for the circle, to watch over the instruments, retraction of the instruments in the end, etc.)
- Security: police to prevent eventual incidents
- Firemen: ambulance for prevention at the place
Percussion Instruments
- normally about 300, varying according to the number of predicted participants
- the instruments have to be assured by the organizer entity
- beyond conventional instruments it can be thought about the construction of instruments through recycling
Transport
- guaranty of the transport of the instruments, sound equipment, chairs
Advertising
- the organizer entity is responsible for the advertising and promotion of the event to the press. |
The “Sons and Sucatas” project promotes workshops on construction of musical instruments from waste materials as form of sensitization for the percussion/music and for the necessity of recycling. This workshop includes a first part of construction of instruments and a second part of rhythms research.
Main Goals
The project aims to extend and to diversify the musical and acoustic sensitivity of the participants, supplying the required means so that the participants can not only create their instruments but also to explore the sounds that they produce.
Through this workshop, all participants will get to know the concepts of form, volume and sonority, developing their creativity and motor coordination, at the same time that they will have notions of aesthetic and taste.
The transformation of common objects into musical instruments will be also a great exercise of attention and manual ability. Children, young and adults will have a close contact with the diverse timbres that the materials can produce, and with the harmony that can appear among them. There will be a great auditory stimulation and to musicality in general. The construction of instruments by their own hands will bring, as a natural consequence, the affirmation of the personality and responsibility of the children, since they can see into practice the results of their efforts.
Duration
1 day (about 6 hours)
Eg: from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 14:30 to 17:30
Target Public
All people, including technicians, teachers and entertainers.
* In the case of groups of children, it is preferable that those do not have very diverse ages, so we suggest the following groupings ages: 6 - 9 years old; 10 - 13 years old; 14 - 18 years old.
In this in case, the activity has the duration of about 2 hours for each group.
Number of participants per session
Maximum of 20 participants.
Program of the activity
First Part: Instruments Construction
• Circle of presentations/ generic presentation of the project
• Selection of the material (plastic, cardboard, metal, etc.)
• Selection of the tools
• Construction:
1st step - to create an instrument individually (the creativity awakes)
2nd step - to create an instrument in group (it develops the group feeling)
3rd step - visualization of instruments already made
4th step - to construct an instrument under orientation.
Second Part: Rhythm Research
• Corporal Percussion
• Voice as Instrument (imitation of animals, musical instruments, urban sounds)
• Rhythms Dance
• Simple and Popular Rhythms
• Presentation and execution of the instruments made
• Improvisation in group - awakes the creativity
• Final presentation with a theme played by all participants.
What we need!?
1. Materials:
- PVC Pipes (different sizes)
- Cardboard Pipes (different sizes)
- Plastic Pipes from works (different sizes and colours)
- Drums of plastic and metal
- Bottle taps
- Broomstick
- cans
- wooden boxes
- Plastic bottles and demijohns
- Fabric, plastic, canvas or other materials to be used as skin
- Keys
- Metal tubes
- Beans/ shells etc
- Other available materials...
2. Tools:
- Different sizes of Saws
- Hammers
- Nails (different sizes)
- Wires and ropes
- Professional stapler
- White Glue
- Wide Selotape
- Scissors
- Other available tools...
3. Area:
Minimum of 30 m² area, with tables to work on. |
Workshop Initiation to Percussion aims to give a first contact with the primitive percussion and the urban and organic percussion, with access to various instruments from the most traditional to the more modern ones. Everything in a simple, glad, dynamic language, given by the Brazilian percussionist Paulinho Kaiymã that brings his own technique allied to many years of experience in the world-wide percussion.
Duration
Modules of 6 hours or 12 hours
Target Public
Everybody who likes and wants to learn percussion, for leisure or professional ends...
* Workshops can be adapted to the specific necessities of technicians, teachers and entertainers.
Number of participants per session
Maximum of 20 participants.
Levels
Initiation, Intermediary and Advanced
Program of the Workshop Initiation to Percussion
- What it is percussion?
- Heating and stretching
- The body as an instrument
- Corporal Percussion
- Basic Principles of the musical theory
- Rhythmic Exercises
- Presentation of various percussion instruments
- Djembé: main strokes and its rhythms
- World Rhythms
- Notebook with explanations
- Percussion Dictionary |
ReCICLOS develops training courses for professors, technicians and entertainers in the following areas:
- Drum Circle;
- Construction of musical instruments through recycling;
- Music/Percussion/Rhythms.
These training courses regard professionals, and the number of hours and prices depend on the needs and expectations of the interested parties. |
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