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Sound=Space Opera: choreographing life within an interactive musical environment
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Ana Paula Almeida
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Luis Miguel Girão
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March 9, 2011
Abstract
This paper aims to describe the different stages of the artistic project SOUND=SPACE Opera, held at Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal and presented during the festival Ao Alcance de Todos (Accessible to All) during 15–19 April, 2008. A series of creative workshops using an interactive musical environment, created by Rolf Gehlhaar in 1984, were run for several weeks with a group of six adolescents with special needs, mainly suffering from Down Syndrome. The translation of their day-by-day experiences into sounds and movements resulted in two final performances which were the public surface of a very empowering and rewarding process that intended to improve the quality of life of those who participated.
Keywords: cooperation; daily life experiences; interaction; musical topologies; participation; perceptive embodied awareness; taking ownership
Received: 2010-11-1
Accepted: 2010-12-1
Published Online: 2011-03-09
Published in Print: 2011-3-1
©2011 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York
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cooperation;
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perceptive embodied awareness;
taking ownership
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