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To apply, email apply[at]creatingmusictogether[dot]org, tell us who you are and why you wish to join.
Creating Music Together: One Road Out of Hell
There's a deep communion in music which we haven't found anywhere else. We've experienced moments in concerts where time stops and the musicians and audience are all connected and a window opens up where we cannot understand why we were ever anxious or worried about anything. These moments are brief, perhaps twenty seconds; a sense of the experience remains.
We believe that everyone has the capacity to create new music. Many people have been so trained to ignore their own leadings and to believe that they can't do anything to influence the world around them, that they no longer believe they can do anything. This is hell.
We have experienced beauty and awe in the moment a new piece of music is born. Being there when someone writes their first piece of music is a true joy.
We accept that our work may not have any impact in our lifetimes; we move forward anyway, taking the next indicated action. Each time we work with others to access their abilities, we are reminded that music creates a new future, if not for us then for those who come after us. This is one road out of hell.
We hope you join us for a week of silence, music, and working together. We will introduce basic exercises to listen to imagination, to communicate that to others, and to bring it into this world as your very own music.
Creating Music Together
Seven days of SILENCE, listening, and composing for Music Box
December 29, 2021 - January 6, 2022
Application deadline: December 23rd.
Video and teleconferences 9:00 am and 9:00 pm Eastern US time.
Join thoughtful, curious, engaged, supportive human beings for seven days of silence, listening, composing for music box, informal performances, and reporting moments from our day.
No prior training necessary.
A workshop for people who would like to explore creativity through music. For curious, supportive, thoughtful humans - you don’t have to ever have written music before. Everyone writes and everyone shares their creations for music box (no electronics).
Each day there will be a morning sitting and an evening session including sharing moments from our day, and presentations on Reporting, Introductions to Composition, Listening Exercises, and performances of music written for music box.
Participants must purchase a Kikkerland music box kit and punch cards prior to DECEMBER 29. ORDER EARLY. Expect Shipping delays.
We believe that everyone has the capacity to hear new music and bring it into this world. Through working in groups, each of us gains support and experience listening to internal inspiration, and communicating that inspiration to others. Experienced musicians challenge their own internal critics, and gain tools to work through creative blocks. Beginning musicians gain support and basic tools to write and share their own music.
Contributions
Suggested donation $50. (gladly accepted – not required)
The Assistants Tony Geballe, Doug Farrand, Lucia Rodriguez, Angel Ludwig, Gabriela Suarez, and Craig Shepard draw from experience participating in and organizing Guitar Craft and Guitar Circle Courses, and creating as part of groups in Wandelweiser, and the theater group La Compagnia de' Colombari.
Read a report on a prior retreat here.