Abstract
This paper tells the story of INsono, an interactive sound installation and workshop created by a group of musicians for the 6th edition of the Big Bang in Lisbon, Portugal. To tell this story I will present my findings throughout a narrative that evolves through the analysis and interpretations of interviews with the musicians and the curator of the Big Bang Lisbon, field notes taken during the creation and the presentation of INsono, and group interviews with children about their lived experiences during the workshop. Describing the process that led to the creation of the final sound installation, I will explore, on one side, what were the main concerns and ideas of the musicians and the curator of the festival in what regards concepts such as education, childhood, music, and art, and, on the other, the perspectives of children that participated in the workshop on their experiences of INsono. This will, hopefully, lead us to a discussion where we might rethink the potentialities of experimental music in both formal and non-formal contexts of learning; moreover, it might lead us also to look at the dynamics, strategies and tools that are used in non-formal contexts as a source of inspiration to reflect on pedagogical approaches in the classroom that might enrich the musical and artistic experiences of children.
Highlights
This paper tells the story of INsono, an interactive sound installation and workshop created by a group of musicians for the 6th edition of the Big Bang in Lisbon, Portugal
They get close and apart from each device, they go in and out; they lay down in a bed of wood where they feel several sound vibrations; they touch smoothly on a mirror that is connected to an iPad using their fingertips, and their faces reveal the astonishment listening to the sounds
The field notes written above were taken during the first presentation of INsono at Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), in Lisbon
Summary
A small boy aged around seven opens his eyes deeply, struck with surprise. He has a big pair of red headphones in his ears. The two boys look to each other making a big smile, as if they were keepers of a secret that only they are aware of At that moment they listen to other sounds crossing the room, and quickly join the rest of the group that is exploring INsono with them. I participated in the entire process that led to the creation of INsono, from the first ideas and discussions at Sonoscopia about what we were supposed to do, to the final presentation of the sound installation This gave me the possibility of reflecting on INsono and its purposes from a double perspective: on one side I was with the musicians all the. I was not responsible for the creation of the installation and so, whenever I felt it was needed, I could step aside and reflect on my own, going back again and again to the data, searching for meaningful literature, and writing my own thoughts and ideas, in a process of constant triangulation between the different data sets, the literature, and my own feelings and perspectives about the entire journey
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