{"id":14022,"date":"2013-07-22T07:56:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T12:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=14022"},"modified":"2013-07-22T07:56:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T12:56:02","slug":"starting-today-music-from-scratch-workshop-uncomplicates-the-art-of-musical-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/07\/22\/starting-today-music-from-scratch-workshop-uncomplicates-the-art-of-musical-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting today: Music from Scratch workshop uncomplicates the art of musical creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For several years now, University Settlement Music and Arts School has, with the musicians of Contact Contemporary Music, organised Music from Sctratch, a week-long day composittion worskshop for teens. It begins today at 2 p.m. &#8212; and I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s still an extra place or two for the stray young people in your life.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Because these people know what they&#8217;re doing, the participating kids get to experience composition not as the culmination of a complex series of lessons about building blocks, but as an act of foraging for the weird as well as the familiar in the everyday world.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than being intimidating &#8212; and even more demanding than a regular school class &#8212; the exercise becomes an adventure of discovery.<\/p>\n<p>I dropped in on Music from Scratch a few summers ago, and enjoyed the experience as much as the kids.<\/p>\n<p>Although workshops like these will never replace learning the rudiments of music, they provide a valuable alternate perspective on what organised sound is, and what it can mean.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto composer Michael Colgrass regularly presents school workshops on graphic notation for music, which allows children to better associate what they hear (or would like to hear) with what&#8217;s on paper.<\/p>\n<p>Groups like New Adventures in Sound Art, which I&#8217;ve seen working with children at the Canadian Opera Company&#8217;s summer opera camp, help their young charges translate the sounds of the city into art.<\/p>\n<p>Children should be encouraged to experience making music, not just listening to it, in the same way they are encouraged to experience the visual arts. We have Play-doh and fingerpainting, so why not encourage this same messy-and-fun, let&#8217;s play-in-the-sandbox ethos in music?!<\/p>\n<p>Music from Scratch starts today at the Music Gallery (197 John St), at 2 p.m. All the details are on the poster:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/MFS2013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14024\" alt=\"MFS2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/MFS2013.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/MFS2013.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/MFS2013-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years now, University Settlement Music and Arts School has, with the musicians of Contact Contemporary Music, organised Music from Sctratch, a week-long day composittion worskshop for teens. 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