The Theatre of Charms

Audio-visual fictions

OBJECTIVES

  • Associate a character with an object and a sound.
  • Focus on spatial movements within the image frame.
  • Learn about the basics of sound design in a creative and fun way.
  • Explore the notions of silence and sound.
  • Devise and produce an imaginative performance in class.

WHO’S IT FOR?

Free to attend (registration required).

School children aged 9-11.

DESCRIPTION

A theatre of illusions and imagination, the Théâtre des Charmes is both a workshop and a performance, which invites participants to work together on a visual and audio production.

The participants are encouraged to bring to life characters in a story based on John Zorn’s “Theater of Musical Optics”. These characters are represented by small objects (charms) that take on supernatural dimensions when they are projected onto a wall using an Ipevo document camera.

These charms are made during the workshop and can be extremely simple, for example an object cut-out of paper, a small sticker, a pebble, a bottle top, a piece of wood or a screw etc.

Each charm has a designated sound. These sounds are also produced during the workshop using a computer and a portable recording and playback device. In this way the sounds will create a story. Each charm’s specific music is performed during the performance.

This theatre presents music made with objects: more than music made of sounds, it is a music of images, stories and imagination.

CALENDAR

One 2-hour session

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