BODY MUSIC TRAINING IN 2024
3 MODULES

It is possible to participate in each module separately depending on the prerequisites.
The 4 modules are absolutely complementary and have increasing levels of difficulty.
Objective: This training offers learning through a collective and individual exploration of the languages, techniques and expressions of body music.

Location: Salvagnac (Tarn)
Official website Organizer: https://www.lechemindespossibles.org/musique-corporelle

Contacts:
Maud <lechemindespossibles.formation@gmail.com> / 0623897218
Rolland Martinez <martinezrolland@gmail.com>

Dates:
MODULE 1: February 26 to March 1, 2024
MODULE 2: from March 25 to March 29, 2024
MODULE 3: from April 1 to April 5, 2024
The human body is an ancestral musical instrument. Traditional practices using the human body for sound purposes exist in many corners of the planet. Contemporary forms use its heritage, transform and develop it.
By taking care of our body-instrument, you are invited to an immersive process through a range of musical and bodily explorations aimed at being autonomous in the game by gaining expressiveness, spontaneity and freedom.

Develop organic musical creativity thanks to your anatomy!

“Feeling free to communicate and play music with your body, learning in relaxation, cultivating relaxation is very valuable here.

Singing our desire to be, cultivating the present time and spontaneity, taking a taste for the risk of revealing ourselves, celebrating audacity, all this is made possible in a climate of listening and kindness. This human adventure also of course requires availability to allow yourself to dare, taking advantage of the group to support you. It is an invitation to navigate and alternate between the different attitudes that collective music requires, such as being able to blend into the group and stand out solo to emerge from the whole. »

TRAINING AIMS
• Develop your body awareness and musical sense while relaxing and releasing it
• Develop and cultivate the percussive and expressive richness of the body-instrument and the voice.
• Develop musical ear through particular attention to oneself and others.
• Appropriate musical vocabulary and develop your own language
• Refine your rhythmic (technical) and sensory skills in the individual and collective musical practice of body percussion • Acquire tools for the practice and pedagogy of rhythm.
• Become aware of and apply music parameters (volume dynamics, tempi, duration, density)
• Develop autonomy to interpret, construct, conduct circle songs (spontaneous distribution of vocal and bodily musical parts) • Develop confidence and spontaneity in bodily expression and vocal and percussive improvisation

PROGRAM
MODULE 1: Rhythmic and musical language of body percussion, awareness and exploration of vocabularies and techniques, Interpretations of body music pieces (voice and body percussion)
PREDISPOSITIONS – PREREQUISITES
– Instrumental or vocal practice
– Body practice (dance, sports or martial art)
– Ease and rhythmic foundation (being able to hold a regular beat, playing offbeats)

MODULE 2: Rhythmic and musical language of body percussion, consolidation of techniques, development of expressivity and improvisation, interpretation and creation of body music pieces (voice and body percussion)
PREDISPOSITIONS – PREREQUISITES
– Instrumental or vocal practice
– Practice of body percussion
– Body practice (dance, sports or martial art)
– Ease and rhythmic foundation (being able to hold a regular beat, playing offbeats)


This formation-training contains 3 modules including modules 1 and 2.
A third module must be chosen between module 3 and 4.
The trainer and participants will choose in consultation.

MODULE 3: Musical language of Circles songs, progressive process of understanding the parameters of Circles songs. (interpretation – backing vocalist, cast – Mc guide) PREDISPOSITIONS – PREREQUISITES – Basics of vocal technique – Good Ear and especially ear harmonic (being able to reproduce a voice in unison and octave, holding your voice in the middle of a polyphony), – Instrumental or vocal practice – Body practice (dance, sports or martial art) – Ease and rhythmic foundation (being able to hold a regular beat, playing offbeats) – Experience of improvisation MODULE 4: Percussive dance pieces, percussive choreographies, work & exploration on materials-personal compositions brought by the participants if the desire and need exist. PREDISPOSITIONS – PREREQUISITES – Basics of vocal technique – Good Ear and especially ear harmonic (being able to reproduce a voice in unison and in octave, hold his voice in the middle of a polyphony), – Instrumental or vocal practice – Practice of body percussion – Dance practice – Body practice (dance, sports or martial art) – Ease and rhythmic foundation (being able to hold a regular beat, playing offbeats) – Experience of improvisation

CONTENTS

By listening to and experimenting with games, studies and techniques, everyone will deepen their practice of body percussion and voice while consolidating their sense of rhythm (fluidity, seating, coordination, cohesion) and their expressiveness.

Formatting, Vocabulary, Expressiveness

– Postural anchoring, weight and balance transfers
– Free and pulsed breathing, search for relaxation/tonity and permanent release
– Undulations, pulsations, breathing
– Introduction and practice of Qi Qong, gentle health gymnastics
– Guided vocal and body warm-up
– Cooperative games: Connection and expression games, use of space, development of listening skills. Creation of dynamics in the group.
– Fun coordination exercises
– Discovery of body sounds, exploring the percussive potential of the body, awareness of “body timbres”
– Acquisition of existing and imagined bodily percussive vocabulary
– Cultivate listening, enjoy it, increase it

Rhythmic and melodic, harmonic work

– Awareness of rhythmic subdivisions, rhythmic keys, polyrhythms as a listener and player
– Sing a rhythm, play it, dance it.
– Learning of orchestral pieces of body music made up of rhythmic, melodic and harmonic sections, provided by the speaker.
– Learning with the body of traditional Brazilian, African (Ghana, Congo-Aka-Pygmies), traditional French and imaginary rhythms and songs.
– Crossing of tools and studies leading to the independent writing of rhythmic forms individually and in small groups.

Movement, dynamics

– Start from the sound-producing gesture to construct a dance movement
– Starting from the danced gesture to produce sound, then sound writing
– Work on the source of musical and dance gesture: What does the body come alive with?
– Discovery of percussive choreographies provided by the speaker

Musicality, Improvisation, Game

– Play on the dynamics of volumes, space, ruptures, density
– Games exploring intentions and the theatrical act
– Collective and individual improvisation games.
Circles songs
Trainer/ facilitator: Rémi Leclerc

Pianist trained and graduated in classical music by exiles from the Royal School of England in the Lot.
Rémi Leclerc was passionate about jazz and improvised music from childhood.

He trained in parallel with scientific acoustic studies - IUT Physical Measurements and DEUST Acoustics, signal processing. He was a
disciple of Leon Parker, emblematic New York drummer and percussionist of the 90s, working on the use of the body as
drum instrument.

Rémi Leclerc introspectively sought his personal approach to bodily music by establishing bridges between the dancing body and
the musical body.
On his return from New York, he created with Tioneb (Human beat boxer/Winner of the Loop Station World Championship) an atypical duo “Human
Player” sharing the bill with The Procussions, Guem, DJ Vadim, Young Blood Brass Band…As a pianist, he played with Abdu Salim,
hard-bopper Texan saxophonist, and plays vintage electroacoustic keyboards in Hancock in stock, (tribute to Herbie
Hancock), Stabat Akish, (signed by John Zorn's Tzadik-NY music label)

In 2013, he founded the Cie des Humanophones exploring a musical language integrating the body, the art of the voice and dance. It brings together
singers and percussionists for whom he composes and whom he now directs in “CORPUS” (more than 300 performances in
France and Europe).
He is an actor-musician for the company SOns de Toile in the show “Zou! » with more than 400 performances in France and
Europe. In 2015, he joined the musical theater “Soleo” on the move, performing internationally.

Within the Humanophones, Rémi Leclerc is currently developing two new creations: LE DILEMME DU HERISSON (2022) – a musical duo of
physical theater with Quelen Lamouroux and ANTROPUS – an anatomical concert in septet. In co-direction with LEILA MARTIAL and SOREL ETA,
they created “AKA FREE VOICES OF FOREST” a collaboration with indigenous Pygmies from Congo-Brazzaville from the NDIMA group.

Rémi Leclerc, also passionate about teaching, gives body music workshops, cricles songs, for
all audiences across Europe. He performs and teaches as part of the International Body Music Festival. (Paris, Rome, Ghana)