"Stadt-Raum-Klang" or "City-Space-Sound" a project for the youth of the city of Freiberg
Ruairí O'Brien
I finished the school project "Stadt-Raum-Klang" in the city of Freiberg with a presentation of the work done on Wednesday the 17th of June. The project which had been running since early january of this year was very successful. The "City-Space-Sound" was created for the "Silbermann society" in Freiberg, the town of the world famous Orgel designer and builder. His orgels are some of the greatest in the world. The idea was to inspire the children to think about the identity of their home town and its sound, its spirit in relationship to themselves. We experimented with sound and acoustics and the architectural space required to achieve certain sounds and relating that back to rooms in the school and streets and squares in the town. We sketched and built cardboard instruments, created performances, analysed structures found in other art forms such as film etc. We also visited the orgel in the Main church of freiberg and were given a guided tour and demonstration by the Domkantor.
Over the last weeks the school children (teenagers) had been working on the idea of creating a collage sculpture with a shoebox which should express their individual personality and sound. As part of the final presentation the school kids were asked to create a larger structure out of their individual works on which they had been working.
The parts create the whole.
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