Course description
The Stage Is Yours: Participants become interpreters and creators of a soundscape that emerges in the moment. The course guides participants from their first encounter with the instruments to a collaboratively developed concert or performance. The stage becomes a space for discovery, expression, and shared musical action. LUNASON in Concert brings the LUNASON instruments directly into a shared musical process. The course focuses on the experience of developing a unique musical situation for the stage using unfamiliar instruments, new timbres, and diverse forms of interplay. Participants become familiar with selected LUNASON instruments, discover their sonic possibilities, and experience how new musical structures can develop through interplay. The aim is not to reproduce an existing repertoire, but rather to create a unique musical language through listening, reacting, and collaborative creation. Improvisation, musical communication, presence, and conscious awareness of others are central elements of the course. Sounds are tried out, combined and further developed, roles within the ensemble emerge and change, and from individual impulses a shared musical whole grows step by step.
Course objectives
• Get to know the LUNASON instruments through playing music together • Experience new forms of ensemble playing and musical communication • Explore improvisational processes as a starting point for collaborative creation • Listen to one another, respond, and develop musical impulses • Contribute your own sonic and musical ideas to an ensemble • Strengthen stage presence and confidence in shared musical expression • Develop a concert or performance situation together • Gain new inspiration for ensemble work, teaching, and artistic projects
Target groups
• Music school teachers • Teachers of all school levels • Special education teachers • Musicians • Artists and cultural professionals • Students
Contents
• Introduction to the world of LUNASON • Familiarization with the LUNASON instruments • Playing music together and musical communication • Improvisation and creative ensemble work • Development of a joint musical performance • Joint finale
Applications
• In-service training • Teacher training days • Artistic training • Project weeks • Inclusion projects • Cultural and creative days
Educational benefits
This course supports educational institutions in creating creative learning spaces, fostering perceptual skills, exploring new forms of musical expression, developing interdisciplinary approaches to music, strengthening group dynamics through collaborative music-making, and gaining innovative inspiration for their teaching. • Relation to Curriculum 21/27 • Interdisciplinary skills • Contribution to school development
Course instructor
Domenico Melchiorre is a musician, composer, instrument developer, and founder of LUNASON. As principal timpanist of the Basel Symphony Orchestra, he combines his international concert career with many years of research and development in the field of new instruments and soundscapes. For over ten years, he has been developing LUNASON's unique instrumentarium and the sonic language of Metasonic Sound. His instruments are used worldwide by musicians, ensembles, universities, festivals, and in film, theater, and concert productions. As a composer and instructor, he provides practical insights into the creation of new sounds, instruments, and artistic processes, inviting participants to discover, experience, and shape sound in new ways. The courses are led by Domenico Melchiorre or qualified specialists from the LUNASON team.
Course formats
• One-day course (1 day) • Intensive course (2 days) • Customized formats available upon request
Venue
LUNASON GmbH Vereinshausstr. 18 4133 Pratteln info@lunason.com
Group size
Minimum 3 people Maximum 10 people
Requirements
The requirements depend on the respective target group and are adapted to the qualifications.
Course fees
Half-day course (3 hours)
500.-
Full-day course (2 x 3 hours)
Intensive course (4 x 3 hours)
1000.-
2000.-
Cost contributions: Materials, preparation, follow-up, etc. will be offered according to the effort involved.