Talking Drums – Community Drumming with MagBeat Studio
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Talking Drums – Community Drumming with MagBeat Studio
This programme is held in Hungarian.
For centuries, making music was a communal experience. While it is true that some artists have now moved up onto the stage and the audience has been relegated to the auditorium, and that we can listen to almost any kind of music alone with earphones in our ears, all this is a relatively new development on a historical scale. Although this new fashion naturally has its own charm, in the Global Village+ series we would like to return to the roots, dismantle the invisible wall between stage and audience, and involve the public in the community of music-makers.
In the May episode of the series, we can immerse ourselves in the world of West African drums and rhythms with the interactive program of Magbeat Studio, which is a liberated community music gathering centered on the most widespread African percussion instrument, the djembe, complemented by further African percussion such as dunun drums, bougarabou, kpanlogo, ashiko, calabash and shekere.
A characteristic feature of the musical traditions of various cultures, and especially of African percussion music, is that rhythms are usually played in groups on several instruments, traditionally performed in connection with important events in the life of the community. In the last few decades, drum circles have become increasingly popular worldwide as leisure and recreational activities; their sweeping atmosphere offers participants both a musical and a communal experience.
The MagBeat Studio “Talking Drums” program brings this experience to life with an educational presentation introducing the West African percussion instruments used in drum circles, entertaining rhythm games, teaching multi-part rhythms and musical cues, and then, building on these, a guided community drumming session. The workshop ends with a conductor game, during which we shape the parts of the group that has turned into an ad hoc drum orchestra, and the ebb and flow of their ensemble playing, into spontaneously emerging music without words, using rhythmic signals and body language. We also provide instruments for those who do not yet have their own drum. Instrument requests can be indicated on this form: ….Google Forms LINK...
Participation does not require any musical training, only good spirits, openness and attention to one another, which typically develop quickly under the shared pulse of the drums. Besides offering an insight into the world of West African percussion instruments, the program playfully develops mutual attunement and focus, the ability to direct attention to the “here and now.”
The program is led by the founders of Magbeat Studio, Gábor Zsarnai and Lara Tompa, with the contribution of the well-practiced MagBeast Studio team. Both have been working with percussion instruments for many years, and their mission is to enable as many people as possible—beginners and more advanced players alike—to experience the community-building power of making music and the sweeping, flow-like experience of drumming together.
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A new series entitled World Village+ is launching at the House of Music, which, as a companion to Balázs Weyer's educational music series World Village, focuses on playing music together in a workshop format.