When creating music, the prevailing belief is that it requires a lot of technical equipment and resources, which is not necessary – we can also create music in other creative ways. The aim of the workshop is to show young people how to create their own song with minimal resources and accessible technology (smartphone).
We will first exchange views on what music is, what it is not and what ways we create music we know. We will then go to the field, where we will find and record sounds, from which we will eventually create our own song. We will talk about how to express emotions through sound, and a relaxed approach to creation and improvisation, which opens up new self-confidence and expression in the individual in many ways, will be crucial. Participants do not need prior knowledge and knowledge of music
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About the author
www.jakaberger.com
Jaka Berger is one of the most active, most creative and diverse drummers, percussionists, composers and improvisers of the Slovenian music landscape in the last fifteen years. In 2006, he recorded his debut for the Italian label Splasch Records. From 2014 until today, he has been preparing music for a prepared set of drums, with which he regularly releases solo works. He regularly develops the experimental project Party with the visual artist Matej Stupica and gives concerts with the group Darla Smoking. In recent years he has created a composition for the ten-member orchestra Tentet of the Audible Life Stream, a record dedicated to composer Morton Feldman in collaboration with pianist Dejan Berden and released Bootleg Unit trio and Fresh Dust trio for FMR Records. The record Fresh Dust trio (with pianist Marina Džukljev and guitarist Sam Šalamon) was named the album of 2019 according to the portal for improvised music Central. Since 2020, he has been actively involved in the composition Treatise by composer Cornelius Cardew – he recorded the album Breakfast with Cardew, which garnered excellent international reviews. In 2021, after two years of active collaboration with Slovenian independent poets, he published a book of audio translations, Poetrix.
In recent years, Berger has conducted percussion and music improvisation workshops and regularly instructs percussion. He complements his knowledge and experience with various musicians and improvisers from all over the world and expands the concept of workshops into a broad collective creation based on improvisation and communication. In this way, he places music in our everyday lives and through it teaches and encourages relationships based on listening, responding, coexisting and collaborating.