Monday, 30.07. and Tuesday, 31.07.2018
16.30 - 18.00 h

Lecturer:

Christine Hübner (Germany)

The music therapist and percussionist Christine Hübner (www.triskilian.de) ranges amongst the first students of the degrees course “World Music” at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg. In her youth, she discovered the play of hand percussion instruments and was a singer in several rock and pop bands. Meanwhile, she mainly plays in ensembles for Old Music and World Music.

Frame drums and singing. Due to their rich overtone spectrum and their gong-like keynote, frame drums offer an ideal base for singing with.

In this course, the focus lays on the voice, the rhythm and the overall sound in the group.

The following elements will be experienced:

• The relation between the frame drums and their interaction
• Resonance of frame drum and voice
• Drumming and & „sounding“
• Rhythmical sound bath (overtone singing welcome)
• Creation of cyclic melodies
• drummed “fill-ins”, calls, “trills” and other effects with the voice, percussive speaking and      singing
• Polyphony
• Call & response
• Improvisations with voice and/or drum
• Physical involvement: simple step sequences, stomping, wiping
• excursions into rhythmic displacement, canon and overlapping rhythms