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“BebéPlimPlim” is currently a part of the project “GermInArte – Artistic Transformation
for Social and Human Development since Infancy”, supported by Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation. Along with three other works from the project (“Colos de
Música”, “Raps&Rimas” and “Super-Sonics”), it is designed as a transformative
transitive training in the field of arts for infants for early childhood professionals,
musicians and other artists. Transformative because it is built upon individual needs
and motivations, shaping the capacity to express the art within each one and
transitive because it is always in process. Its main idea evolves around singing and
movement as being born in the mother’s lap, the cradle of the first communicative
interactions of a human being. “BebéPlimPlim” is therefore grounded in the concept
of communicative musicality developed by Stephen Malloch and Colwyn Trevarthen,
highlighting that Music is part of our communication matrix and it can also be present
in musical artistic creations. The repertoire from “BebéPlimPlim” is inspired by different
sound landscapes, from Johann Sebastian Bach, Meredith Monk, Kurt Schwiters and
Hugo Balla to Portuguese folk music and Javanese gamelan. Its wide-ranging
influences intend to contribute to the enrichment of listening experiences since
infancy.
The main goals of this training are to explore communicative resources using the
body and the voice, to be able to use the repertoire in different educational settings,
to share meaningful moments of musical interaction, and to contact with
professionals who work in different early childhood contexts.
The demonstration aims to share one possible experience built upon this specific
musical repertoire. The activities are centred in listening, movement, vocal
landscapes and human interaction.
The implications for this work are to offer complementary educational and artistic
perspectives not yet provided in our higher education training programmes for
teachers and artists, and to develop processes of autonomy, initiative and reflection
within the context of musical creation for children.
This work emphasises listening as a different possibility of connecting to music, and
draws attention to sharing listening experiences as the basis of being human.
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Communicative musicality Listening Movement Vocal landscape Human interaction