Musical Improvisation with elementary and World-culture instruments (workshop)

Have you ever made music with simple stones, wood and metal ? Or do you think that’s "only” something to engage the young kids ? The way we create contemporary music has two main roots: one is the discovery of sounds of matter and nature in a perceptive and social way. The other is using very old and also selfmade instruments of World culture, wich can be played without any musical abilities. The knowledge of the peoples is still living in the sounds and construction of instruments and can be found as an expression of understanding of nature, spirit and everyday life. Sometimes its more rhythmically, with drums, body , hand and feet, with singing powerfull songs of the tribes, sometimes its more silently or meditative. As examples there are instruments like shellhorn, didjeridoo, bull-roarer, drums of many shapes, rainmaker, flutes, strings, soundbowls, lithophones… With monochord of Pythagoras we can follow the connection of music and mathematics, and in several scalas of flutes and strings can be listened and find principles of evolution of soul and consciousness of mankind. On the other hand the workshop offers to experience yourself and music as way to understand each other and have a lot of joy and peace.

It can be arranged as 2 hours settings, some hours or daily schedules, also ongoing or weekend work, with more deepening. Courses to make your own instruments are available. Course participants should be at minimum 7, at maximum 18. In the room should be possible
a free circle of chairs and for free movements, too. Some tables to put instruments.

For making instruments needs a crafts room, there max. participants 12.

The payment needs travel and accommodation expenses, and fee. The fee could be an hour fee or daily or weekly prize. It is individual to agree. A guideline could be 25-50 Euro/hr, 100 Euro/day or 500 Euro/week. Exceptions and reductions are possible.

Hannes Heyne, founder of KlangHütte Dresden, was born in 1958 and grew up under conditions of communist Germany. After school he was engaged in ecology and studied hydrology, the science of water on earth. After 7-years working period on this field and contact to the IDRIART-impulse of Miha Pogacnik (meeting people through the arts) in 1986, he studied music in Hamburg, especially improvisation and making instruments. He developes methods of play, where music, senses education and ecology are connected with the art of communication and meeting people. Workshops took place in Romania, Estonia, Georgia, Armenia, Germany, Russia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia, Mexico, USA, Italy, Poland Czechia, in schools for children, handicapped, teachers, parents, in environmental and musical Academies, with scientists, professional musicians, non-musicians, prisoners, on national and international festivals. There are project with other artists like architects, sculpturers, painters, and creating sound sculptures. Offeríng concerts, lectures, sound-travels. Hannes Heyne is a member of WAFE (world forum for acoustic ecology) and RING for group improvisation, Germany.

Workshops of improvisation could be prepared for any purpose and group. Performances, objects and concerts offered by ordering. For well planning and sure agreements its necessary to plan half to one year in advance.

Contact: Hannes Heyne, KlangHütte, Dr.-Külz-Str. 6 , D-01445 Radebeul, Germany, phone/fax: +49-(0)351-8010443, e-mail: KlangHuette@web.de, www.KlangHuette.de

NatureMusicPlay VII
international camp for Perception, Play and Meeting people, summer 2010,

NatureMusicPlay ist the challenge of an unusual meeting between people from different cultures and with nature places of special beauty. In the first three years the camp took place at Baltic Sea cost of Estonia, then in Romania in the high Mountains and two times in West Carpathians. The point is to share “normal” life in a small group, sleep in tents, cook at the fire, bring water, eat and create free spaces for making games, perceiving the nature, doing art. Troughout this experience a stronger responsability and practical ecological work can develop. Each country and peoples offers other subjects and priorities. Simple musical instruments, which we bring with us like drums and flutes, collected ones like stones and wood or selfmade at the place help to intensify the contact.
We like to invite people with different mother tongues, to share colourful sounds of languages and songs.

In seventh year of NatureMusicPlay the journey goes again to Romania. The place in West Carpathian Mountains, Apuseni, Belioara is offering paradisic landscape, white lime-stone rocks, small monasteries, special plants and smellings. Houses with grass roofs lead to other times. The inhabitants are friendly and welcome us.
Special theme will be: silence. What means silence ? How I can find it, alone or as a group ? Can sounds from nature or instruments lead us to silence ? Also communication, to understand each other, will be a subject. How I can listen and talk to animals, plants, stones or a part of the landscape ? In good tradition we will paint with plants and create art with natural objects. Our fruitful contacts to local people will be continued.

With: Hannes Heyne and friends
Where: Apuseni-Mountains, Aries- Valley, Posaga-Belioara, Romania, Transsilvania
Who: For adults and Youngs from 16 with own responsibility. Languages German, English and all other, maximum 15 participants
When: 11.-17.07.10
Journey there: individual, on arrangement together (microbus) Accomodation in tents. Please bring your own tent, isolating mat, sleeping bag, warm and rainproof clothing and shoes

Costs: includes course and food (basic): 250 Euro (Germany and “West”) 120 Euro (Romania and “East”), reduction on inquiry
Enrolment: until 1.6. 2010 with deposit 50 Euro (West) or 25 Euro (East)
Organisation: Hannes Heyne, KlangHütte, Sachsenstr 28, D-01689 Weinböhla, Germany,
phone +49-(0)35243-47097, E-Mail: KlangHuette@web.de
for Romania: Andreea Botezan, same adress, E-Mail: andreeabotezan@hotmail.com;
for Estonia: Riina Velmet, phone +372-79-94838, E-Mail: riinavelmet@hot.ee