| Music
by Children
Coaching children to create music they want/ enjoy
making. Dig how each group makes completely different
styles...
Da Hiphop Raskalz
children from East Harlem, NYC (who have theri own
webpage- click here)
Matarile by
chidren in Washington Heights, NYC
the Tangerine Awkestra
by children in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Mayan Mountain music by children in Nothern Guatemala
Various other kid's music
projects
an article from
Montreal about these projects
Matarile
Composition with kids from West Harlem on Matarile in
1991 – when you could hear gun shots every night in
their neighborhood. The kids, 5-9 years old with one
13 year old who did the rap, could identify different
guns by sound and imitate them. Released on the CD Smut.
Matarile
Matarile performers: Wilson Arias -
Rap, Jose R. Cespedes - Conga, Tamboura; Rafael de los
Santos - Piano;Willie Hernandez - Bass, Guitar; Deyamira
de Luna, Marielys Divanne, Fioremi Felix , Yokaira
Feliz, Ana Maria Gonzalez, Wilson Hidalgo,Merlyn Jaime,
Bianel Ramos, Dolly Rosario, Victor Rosea, Julio
Sanchez, Alejandro Taveras, Rocio Taveras -Vocals.
Tangerine
Awkestra
Aliens Took My Mom
2000
The flutist and school teacher Katie Down and I coached
her class in Fort Green, Brooklyn of kids ranging from
2-9 years old. They made an Avant Garde group, the Tangerine
Awkestra (2000). The piece
is a story they made up of space aliens invading New
York.
Aliens
invade from Jupiter
Spaceships
on the Empire State Building
Volcanoes
explode at the center of the earth
The
aliens blow up Antartica
Minuet
for recorder & violin
Aliens
took my Mom
The
navy bombs them
Twelve
bar blues
All
of the humans blow up
The
aliens get nuclear bugs in them and pop
The
aliens blow up Part II
Everything
is soft
Mayan Mountain Music
Yol Ku: Inside the Sun
In 2007, Alan Kushan, Rory
Young, and I coached
high school children from San Mateo Ixtatan, a
Mayan community in Guatemala to compose music using the
traditional giant marimbas. Except for the hip hop piece
in Chuj, these use games with different colored tapes on
the marimba keys.
Oracion
de la Cruz
El
Bello Quetzal
Xan
Matin Mix
Casamiento
de los Apaches
Noble
Cazador
Fiesta
de los Mayas
Here is a video
of the project by Charles Krezzell
Various
otherkid's recordings
"I
like Brooklyn" with Rebecca Cherry's violin class
(ages about 5-8) at the Noel Pointer Institute in
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (2010)
Ramsee, composition "Spider
Monkey"
age 4, from Chicago (2008)
Tomasso, overdub drum solo "Tomasso
in New York"
age 2, from Rome (2008)
Dido, from Rome, age 1! Three tracks overdubbed toy
piano and drums. Dido
in New York
Da Hiphop Raskalz, ages 6-8, "We're
Famous Just Like Mary J Blige" written for their
show at Great Performers at Lincoln Center (2006)
Related kid's music projects
Paul
Rubenstein coaches kids in New York to build and play
microtonal guitars! Incredible music and
instruments.
the AMAZING Modern Music project with kids from
Montreal - read about them here
Stop
it right now
Montreal
mix
UFO
Boom
Chick Boom
Plan J
Break
it down turn it around
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