The Sounds of Rural Schooling

The Sounds of Rural Schooling

The sounds of rural schools. From active listening to collective creation arises from the collaboration between the Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation and the Colegio Rural Agrupado Ribera del Porma. This project aims to stimulate learning and sound experimentation through the stay at the CRA of the musician and pedagogue Luis Martínez Campo in collaboration with the pianist and composer Hara Alonso and Juventudes Musicales de León. Starting from a local perspective, the project seeks to experiment with sound through experience, emphasising the processes of collective creation and relating them to the core subjects through three key concepts: soundscape, orality and sound recording. From an attitude of listening and collaboration, the process is guided by three questions: What do we sound like? What does our environment sound like? What does the world sound like?

Co-financed by the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation (thanks to being selected in the call for proposals CLAVES), el proyecto se desarrolla a lo largo de tres cursos académicos (empezando en septiembre de 2017 y finalizando en junio de 2020), en horario lectivo, implicando al alumnado del CRA, a sus familias y al profesorado.

Objectives

• Promote the local perspective, The aim is to make the local space relevant to the global imaginary. The aim is to awaken in the pupils an outlook based on self-esteem and constructive criticism of everyday experiences and the relationship with the environment in which they are expressed. The revaluation of what is local and close to them in order to gain access to the global.
• Approach music and sound from the point of view of the interdisciplinarity, using the contents of the core subjects to reach the creation of sound. Abandon the fragmentation of knowledge into hermetic disciplines and create knowledge from experience and participation, in a holistic and integral way. To use students' previous knowledge to introduce creative musical experience as a component of the culture of which they are a part.
• Focusing on music practice from the improvisation towards the development of processes and not towards the achievement of products. The aim is also to promote the practice of improvisation as a public space (in which everyone participates) for collective communication.
• Developing the empowerment The aim is to stimulate confidence in the students' own creative and managerial abilities within the group, and thus encourage students to find their own solutions to problems, and even to formulate their own questions.

Actions

The project is articulated around three annual actions that reflect the path from the local to the global:

1. Residence. For nine months of the year, Luis Martínez Campo will join the CRA in a teaching-learning process in which the core subjects (mathematics, language, natural and social sciences) will be related to sound creation and experimentation from a holistic point of view. Starting from the voice and the body, the environment and the landscape will be explored through listening in order to reach collective creation. Active listening, improvisation and collective reflection will be encouraged.
2. Immersion workshop. It is conceived as a space in which some of the practices developed during the residency will crystallise. At the end of each course, during two weeks, a concert-sample will be prepared by Hara Alonso, with works written expressly by the composer based on the experiences in the classrooms. They will be composed for an ensemble made up of CRA students and JJMM musicians.
3. Collaboration with Musical Youth of León. This association brings together dozens of young musicians who are in training or who have already completed their studies. The collaboration is based on the musicians' stays as participants in the classrooms and the formation of the ensemble in the immersion workshop.

Team

Luis Martínez Campo es músico y pedagogo. Participa en proyectos artísticos y educativos en los que aborda lo sonoro desde una visión expandida y transdisciplinar, cobrando especial importancia los procesos creativos colaborativos y la improvisación. Actualmente compagina su actividad docente con la interpretación y la creación de espacios sonoros en artes escénicas.

Hara Alonso is a pianist and composer. She combines her work as a concert pianist and pedagogue in the field of contemporary creation. She has carried out educational projects related to the teaching of improvisation and new technologies in conservatories and music schools in Spain and abroad, as well as multimedia projects for citizen participation.

Juan Luis García es el director de Juventudes Musicales de León, organización que comenzó su actividad en 1998 y en 1999 firmó un Convenio de Colaboración con la Universidad de León. Actualmente cuenta con Orquesta, Banda de Música, y dos coros, además de coordinar los ciclos de conciertos de ganadores del Concurso Permanente de Juventudes Musicales de España.

Nadia Teixeira is responsible for the area of Education and Public Programmes at the FCAYC. Her training has been linked to Art History and Art Education. She is responsible for cultural mediation and general coordination of the project..

María José Pavía es maestra especialista en Pedagogía Terapéutica, tutora del grupo de Primaria de la escuela de Santa Olaja de la Ribera. Es una de las responsables de la coordinación del proyecto en el CRA Ribera del Porma.

Isabel Alonso es maestra de primaria de la sección bilingüe y directora del CRA Ribera del Porma. Es una de las responsables de la coordinación del proyecto en el CRA Ribera del Porma.

Jaime Martínez es presidente del AMPA del CRA Ribera del Porma (curso 2017/18). Es el representante y coordinador de los espacios en los que participe la Asociación de Padres y Madres.

Susana Trigal es presidenta del AMPA del CRA Ribera del Porma (curso 2018/19). Es la representante y coordinadora de los espacios en los que participe la Asociación de Padres y Madres.

Celia Vizcaíno es presidenta del AMPA del CRA Ribera del Porma (curso 2019/20). Es la representante y coordinadora de los espacios en los que participe la Asociación de Padres y Madres.