SOCIAL THEATRE PRACTICE

PDTSM 2014 SOCIAL THEATER PRACTICES MUSIC

LEARNING AND PRACTICE OF ELECTROACUSTIC MUSICAL LANGUAGE IN CONTEMPORARY SOUND CREATION. FROM THE VOICE TO THE SOUND DESIGN.
TRAINING AND AWARENESS PROJECT ABOUT ELECTROACUSTIC MUSICAL LANGUAGE AIMED AT BLIND OR VISION-impaired PEOPLE.

The PDTS Musica professional training course 2014 It was mainly aimed at blind and visually impaired people.
The identification of the target students was carried out in close collaboration with the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired of Parma, project partners, is SILD – Disabled Work Placement Service of the Province of Parma. The laboratory was created thanks to the support of the Department of Training and Active Labor Policies of the Province of Parma. The training project has foreseen, beyond 2 specialized teachers, 1 specialized technician e 1 professional assistant.

In theatrical/musical practice aimed at social issues and the involvement of sensitive people in artistic creation, in the methodologies implemented to prepare the ideal conditions for correct physical and intellectual participation, the aspect of sound production has always been assigned to the conductors or directors of the workshops.
Lenz Rifrazioni's proposal has overturned this assumption. The high innovation of the project is summed up in the use of current technologies, in the possibility of sharing this knowledge with people who have greater difficulty coming into contact with the new languages ​​used in the creative/artistic field, in the construction of a new training methodology that places the sensitive subject in a perspective of self-determination. The type of digital musical work that was taught is the one normally applied in the entertainment sectors, entertainment and all the professional studios that deal with post-production in the fields of advertising, of social promotion, of communication in general.

In a first phase, the investigation focused on the sounds produced directly by the students involved: parole, vocal effects or noises arising from the hands or joints, any production of sound elements without the aid of mechanical means, acoustic or extracorporeal: a corpus of sound that comes exclusively from the student's body.
The timbral heights of this sound were analysed, expressive colors, the power and any other sound/musical element that can represent the object of dramaturgical and compositional transformation.
The second phase consisted of the digital recording of the selected sounds and their critical listening, with the related proposals for rhythmic or timbral changes – or any other formal transformation – according to a vocal and musical dramaturgy project. This produced a first outline of original text composed of words and sounds, a subject for each student on which to intervene with subsequent modifications, amplifications or segmentations.
In this further phase, with the use of the computer and according to the precise instructions of the course leader, the student was taught the use of specific programs for a new processing path (create complex sounds starting from a large amount of simple sounds) in particular by acting on the time and frequency of the sample sounds.

The path of the 8 students, driven starting in April 2014 by teachers Maria Federica Maestri, artistic director of Lenz Rifrazioni, and by Andrea Azzali, composer and electronic musician and historical collaborator of artistic training, it ended with a live performance in which the fundamental principle of the course was realized: the possibility, by a group of “non-musicians”, to make music, to create music by working on sound as an entity and not as an "organization" of notes.

EXIT PDTS Music in the form of a concert open to the public was held on 12 June 2014 in the post-industrial spaces of Lenz Teatro and was divided into three parts: the first, acousmatic, lasting approximately 20', involved listening to songs pre-recorded by the students and created during the course. In the second part the live performance developed: with the help of four lap-tops and four sound generators, the sound materials digitized by the students – sounds, parole, verbal articulations, music tracks – have been assembled, through the mixing carried out by Azzali, on a basic electronic score. The course participants were asked to improvise on it, giving life to a real jam session, to a live concert based on mutual listening and real-time intervention on the sound. In conclusion, the students' live vocal elaborations on electroacoustic recordings previously created by them were presented to the public.

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TRAINING COURSE IN ELECTROACUSTIC MUSICAL LANGUAGE. FROM THE VOICE TO SOUND DESIGN – TRAINING DEPARTMENT – PROVINCE OF PARMA. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Andrew Azzali. Assistants: Alice Scartapacchio, Violetta Fulchiati, Marta Bacciu. Students: Stefano Curti, Alessandra Cinque, Sandro Interdonato, Roberto Conioli, Luciana Ranieri, Barbara Voghera, Capellini Marco, Capellini Stefano. Students: n. 8.
Outcome: CONCERTO LIVE
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 12 June 2014.

VIDEO AND DIGITAL IMAGE TRAINING COURSE – TRAINING DEPARTMENT – PROVINCE OF PARMA. Teachers: Francesco Pititto, Maria Federica Masters. Assistants: Elena Sorbi. Students: Barbara Voghera, Francesco Alestra, Sara Monferdini, Carlotta Spaggiari, Tamara Gonzi, Filippo Magnani, Federica Rosati, Matteo Salini, Matilde Gazzi, Elena Varoli, Luca Molini, Luca Tramaloni. Students: n. 12.
Outcome: Film THE BEtrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 21 March 2013.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – ADVANCED LEVEL – DISABLED AGENCY – MUNICIPALITY OF PARMA. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Assistants: Valentina Barbarini, Barbara Voghera. Students: Valentina Barbarini, Elena Varoli, Francesca Maranca, Fabrizio Maggiulli, Eleonora Mundula, Francesco Cugini, Cecilia Galvani. Students: n. 7.
Outcome: DELIVER TO US, GIRL, YOUR EYES_FRAGMENTA from The Ballad of Caperucita Roja by Federico García Lorca.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 28 maggio 2008.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED AND OPERATIONALLY DISABLED PEOPLE – DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND CULTURAL INSTITUTES – REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO. teacher: Mariolina Carfani. Assistant: Elena Sorbi. Students: Elena Gualandra, Giuseppe Michelotti, Umberto Guidi, Stefano Baciocchi, Matteo Pasquinelli, Rosalba Mularoni, Martina Carlini, Gabriele Zanotti, Barbara Fabbri, Alain Burgagni. Students: n.15.
Outcome: ROMEO AND JULIET di William Shakespeare.
Republic of San Marino, Concordia Theater, 31 maggio 2008.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – ADVANCED LEVEL – DISABLED AGENCY – MUNICIPALITY OF PARMA. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Assistants: Antonio Calianno. Students: Elena Varoli, Francesca Maranca, Marco Fontana, Antonio Calianno. Students: n. 4.
Outcome: Ovid's METAMORPHOSES.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 7 June 2007.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – BASIC LEVEL – DISABLED AGENCY – MUNICIPALITY OF PARMA. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Assistants: Valentina Barbarini, Barbara Voghera. Students: Valentina Barbarini, Barbara Voghera, Francesco Cugini, Cecilia Galvani, Francesca Maranca, Costanza Cardarelli, Laura Officio. Students: n. 7.
Outcome: WHAT IS MAN_FRAGMENTA from Hyperion by Friedrich Hölderlin.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 20 November 2007.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – ADVANCED LEVEL – DISABLED AGENCY – MUNICIPALITY OF PARMA. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Assistants: Valentina Barbarini, Sara Monferdini. Students: Sara Monferdini, Valentina Barbarini, Clare Bersani, Elena Varoli, Francesco Cugini, Matthew Ramponi, Elena Sorbi, Giulia Tricoli, Laura Vallavanti. Students: n. 9.
Outcome: THE SOLDIERS by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 20 maggio 2006.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – BASIC LEVEL – DISABLED AGENCY – MUNICIPALITY OF PARMA. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Assistants: Valentina Barbarini, Barbara Voghera. Students: Marco Fontana, Francesca Maranca, Filippo Magnani, Costanza Robusti, Valentina Fusi, Davide Vicini, Simona Zanni, Valentina Barbarini, Barbara Voghera. Students: n. 9.
Outcome: HUMILITY AND POVERTY LEAD TO HEAVEN from The Constant Prince by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 7 December 2006.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED AND OPERATIONALLY DISABLED PEOPLE – DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND CULTURAL INSTITUTES – REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Students: Elena Gualandra, Giuseppe Michelotti, Umberto Guidi, Stefano Baciocchi, Matteo Pasquinelli, Rosalba Mularoni, Martina Carlini, Gabriele Zanotti, Barbara Fabbri, Alain Burgagni. Students: n.15.
Outcome: WOYZECK. UREA 0,10 there Woyzeck di Georg Büchner.
Republic of San Marino, Concordia Theater, 27 February 2005.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – BASIC LEVEL – DISABLED AGENCY – MUNICIPALITY OF PARMA. Teachers: Sandra Soncini, Elisa Orlandini. Students: Anna Barbieri, Valentina Fusi, Francesco Cugini, Filippo Magnani, Chiara Deviati, Davide Vicini, Matthew Ramponi, Valentina Barbarini, Barbara Voghera, Costanza Robusti. Students: n.10.
Outcome: THE RED SHOES EXERCISE N.2 from The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 26 November 2005.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – ADVANCED LEVEL – MUNICIPALITY OF PARMA DISABLED PEOPLE AGENCY. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Students: Francesco Alestra, Paola Carta, Elena Varoli, Barbara Voghera, Michele Pedrelli, Luca Molini, Lorenzo Belardinelli, Consuelo Ghiretti, Valentina Barbarini, Hilde Soliani, Matthew Ramponi, Joseph Impresable, Flavia Corradi, Francesco Mutti, Mariolina Carfani. Students: n.15.
Outcome: WOYZECK. UREA 0,10 there Woyzeck di Georg Büchner.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 28 February 2004.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – ADVANCED LEVEL – MUNICIPALITY OF PARMA DISABLED PEOPLE AGENCY. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Students: Paola Carta, Elena Varoli, Elena Sorbi, Michele Pedrelli, Luca Molini, Lorenzo Belardinelli, Consuelo Ghiretti, Valentina Barbarini, Hilde Soliani, Matthew Ramponi, Joseph Impresable, Flavia Corradi, Francesco Mutti, Mariolina Carfani. Students: n.14
Outcome: WOYZECK. UREA 0,10 there Woyzeck di Georg Büchner.
Collecchio, Court of Giarola, Nature Gods Theater Festival, 17 October 2004.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – ADVANCED LEVEL – MUNICIPALITY OF PARMA DISABLED PEOPLE AGENCY. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Sandra Soncini, Elisa Orlandini. Students: Paola Carta, Elena Varoli, Elena Sorbi, Michele Pedrelli, Luca Molini, Lorenzo Belardinelli, Consuelo Ghiretti, Valentina Barbarini, Hilde Soliani, Davide Vicini, Veronica Gesti, Teresa Vallara, Matthew Ramponi, Joseph Impresable, Sara Monferdini. Students: n.15
Outcome: THE RED SHOES EXERCISE N.1 from The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 9 December 2004.

THEATER LABORATORY – INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED AND OPERATIONALLY DISABLED PEOPLE – AUSL SOCIAL SERVICES PROVINCE OF REGGIO EMILIA – COOP. THE ECO. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Students: n.17.
Outcome: WOYZECK. UREA 0,10 there Woyzeck di Georg Büchner.
Rubiera, Eco Space, 11 December 2004.

THEATER LABORATORY – TRAINING COURSE FOR PSYCHICLY DISABLED PEOPLE – FORMAFUTURO CONSORTIUM. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Adrian Engelbrecht, Sandra Soncini, Elisa Orlandini, Lucia Perego, Alessandro Sciarroni. Students: Monica Barbato, Stefano Boi, Elena Cattani, Giuliana De Gaetano, Luca Migliari, Cesare Peracchi, Cristina Mariani, Antonietta Martella. Students: n.8.
Outcome: LIFE IS’ DREAM. N.3 STANCES from Life is a Dream by Calderón de La Barca.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 12 April 2003.

THEATER LABORATORY – TRAINING COURSE FOR INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED PEOPLE – FORMAFUTURO CONSORTIUM. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Adrian Engelbrecht, Sandra Soncini, Elisa Orlandini, Lucia Perego, Alessandro Sciarroni. Students: Matteo Agrimonti, Claudio Bronzoni, Rosanna Cammarano, Alessandra Caroli, Sara Cattani, Maria Chiara Galvani, Iarno Guidetti, Serenella Lora, Francesca Mazzoni, Luca Molini, Samuel Moore, Massimo Morandi, Michele Pedrelli, Roberto Polini, Luca Silingardi, Francesca Tedeschi. Students: n.16.
Outcome: LIFE IS’ DREAM. N.3 STANCES from Life is a Dream by Calderón de La Barca.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 18 April 2003.

THEATER LABORATORY – INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED AND OPERATIONALLY DISABLED PEOPLE – AUSL SOCIAL SERVICES PROVINCE OF REGGIO EMILIA – COOP. THE ECO. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Students: n.19.
Outcome: LITTLE RED HOOD EXERCISE N.1 from Rotkäppchen by the Brothers Grimm.
Scandian, Matteo Maria Boiardo Theatre, 3 maggio 2003.

INTEGRATED THEATER LABORATORY – ANFFAS – MUNICIPALITY OF PARMA DISABLED PEOPLE AGENCY. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Lucia Perego. Students: Francesco Alestra, Paola Carta, Maika Colla, Michel Diemmi, Matilde Gazzi, Matthias Giacopinelli, Filippo Magnani, Attilio Michelotti, Laura Pellegri, Elena Varoli, Michele Zeli e n. 9 student actors. Students: n.20.
Outcome: AGNUS WOLVES THE LITTLE RED HOODIE EXERCISE N.1 from Rotkäppchen by the Brothers Grimm.
Collecchio, Court of Giarola, Nature Gods Theater Festival, 12 October 2003.

BODY LABORATORY – ACTORS AND DANCERS AT ADVANCED LEVEL AND PHYSICALLY DISABLED. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Lucia Perego. Students: Francesco Alestra, Matteo Salini, Tina Chiarantano, Alessandro Sciarroni, Mariolina Carfani, Marcello Camilli, Alessandra Sita, David Rocchi. Students: n. 8.
Outcome: BODY N.3 from Wolfgang Goethe's Faust.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 22 March 2002.

THEATER LABORATORY – INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED AND OPERATIONALLY DISABLED PEOPLE – HOSPITAL COURT. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Students: n.16.
Outcome: NINE MORAL AND CORPORAL SEQUENCES from Life is a Dream by Calderón de La Barca.
Rubiera, Herberia Theater, 30 April 2002.

THEATER LABORATORY – UNIVERSITY’ – DISABILITY PROJECT. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Francesco Pititto, Sandra Soncini, Elisa Orlandini, Mariolina Carfani. Students: n.13 – n. 6 deaf university students – n. 7 student actors.
Outcome: TORRE from Life is a Dream by Calderón de La Barca.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 3 maggio 2002.

THEATER LABORATORY – TRAINING COURSE FOR INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED PEOPLE - OPERATORS – FORMAFUTURO CONSORTIUM. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Adrian Engelbrecht, Sandra Soncini, Elisa Orlandini, Lucia Perego, Francesco Pititto, Mariolina Carfani. Students: Francesco Alestra, Maurizio Baglivi, Andrea Bigi, Simona Caggiati, Daniela Campani, Paola Carta, Maika Colla, Morena Corbelli, Michele Del Nevo, Michel Diemmi, Giuliano Ferrari, Matilde Gazzi, Matthias Giacopinelli, Filippo Magnani, Stefania Mazzotta, Attilio Michelotti, Sara Monferdini, Matteo Nissoli, Laura Pellegri, Giordana Rivi, Thomas Sementa, Federica Spadoni, Elena Varoli, Barbara Voghera, Michele Zelli. Students: n. 25
Outcome: WITHOUT ADVICE from Life is a Dream by Calderón de La Barca.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 2 June 2002.

GRAY THEATER – ELDERLY. Teachers: Adrian Engelbrecht. Students: Joseph Barigazzi, Anna Betti, Alexander Castiglione, Teresa Vernasca, Carmen Ugolotti, Angelo Ziveri. Students: n. 6.
Outcome: URFAUST. PHILEMON AND BAUCIDES from Wolfgang Goethe's Faust.
Parma, Council Hall of the IV San Leonardo District, 24 February 2001.

THEATER LABORATORY – PRE-WORK ORIENTATION COURSE FOR INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED PEOPLE – FORMAFUTURO CONSORTIUM. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Sandra Soncini, Elisa Orlandini, Lucia Perego, Francesco Pititto. Students: Francesco Alestra, Simona Caggiati, Daniela Campani, Paola Carta, Maika Colla, Michele Del Nevo, Michel Diemmi, Giuliano Ferrari, Matilde Gazzi, Matthias Giacopinelli, Filippo Magnani, Stefania Mazzotta, Attilio Michelotti, Sara Monferdini, Matteo Nissoli, Laura Pellegri, Giordana Rivi, Thomas Sementa, Federica Spadoni, Elena Varoli, Barbara Voghera. Students: n. 21.
Outcome: THE SALE OF THE HEART from Wolfgang Goethe's Faust.
Parma, Forma Futuro Consortium Company, 2 June 2001.

BODY LABORATORY – ACTORS AND DANCERS AT ADVANCED LEVEL AND PHYSICALLY DISABLED. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Lucia Perego. Students: Francesco Alestra, Matteo Salini, Tina Chiarantano, Alessandro Sciarroni. Students: n. 4.
Outcome: BODY N.1 – BODY N.2 from Wolfgang Goethe's Faust.
Baganza Hall, Rocca, 8 September 2001.

THEATER DANCE LABORATORY – ADVANCED LEVEL ACTORS AND INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED PEOPLE. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Lucia Perego. Students: Lara Bonvini, Mariolina Carfani, Paola Carta, Alexander Castiglione, Maika Colla, Federico Cornia, Michele Del Nevo, Michel Diemmi, Matilde Gazzi, Ernesto Greci, Silvia Guareschi, Attilio Michelotti, Sara Monferdini, Marie Antoinette Parrella, Nicola Pasqualino, Laura Pellegri, Thomas Sementa, Elena Varoli, Barbara Voghera. Students: n.19.
Outcome: URFAUST A FAUST_I SMELL OF LIFE from Urfaust by Wolfgang Goethe.
Parma, Stable Theatre, 26 April 2000.

THEATER LABORATORY – ADVANCED LEVEL ACTORS AND INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED PEOPLE – HOSPITAL COURT. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters. Students: n.14.
Outcome: URFAUST UN FAUST from Urfaust by Wolfgang Goethe.
Rubiera, Hospital Court, June 2000.

BODY LABORATORY – ADVANCED LEVEL DANCERS AND PHYSICALLY DISABLED DANCERS. Teachers: Lucia Perego. Students: n. 7.
Outcome: Fornovo Taro, Forum Boarium, Nature Gods Theater Festival, 10 September 2000.

THEATER DANCE LABORATORY – A.N.F.F.A.S. INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED. Teachers: Lucia Perego, Maria Federica Masters. Students: Marta Boggio, Paola Carta, Maika Colla, Michel Diemmi, Michele Del Nevo, Emanuele Foglia, Emiliano Foglia, Matilde Gazzi, Stefania Mazzotta, Sara Monferdini, Laura Pellegri, Thomas Sementa, Elena Varoli, Barbara Voghera. Students: n.14.
Outcome: DREAMS FROM HAMLET from Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 13 maggio 1999.

THEATER LABORATORY – ADVANCED LEVEL ACTORS AND INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED PEOPLE. Teachers: Maria Federica Masters, Lucia Perego. Students: Elisa Bertolotti, Lara Bonvini, Paola Carta, Alexander Castiglione, Letizia Catarraso, Michele Del Nevo, Matilde Gazzi, Sonia Gobbi, Ernesto Greci, Stefania Mazzotta, Sara Monferdini, Marie Antoinette Parrella, Elisa Orlandini, Thomas Sementa, Luca Serrani, Sandra Soncini, Elena Varoli, Barbara Voghera. Students: n.18
Outcome: URFAUST UN FAUST from Urfaust by Wolfgang Goethe.
Baganza Hall, Casino of the Carrega Woods, Nature Gods Theater Festival, 3 September 1999.

GRAY THEATER – ELDERLY. Teachers: Adrian Engelbrecht. Students: Michele Arduini, Lucia Barbieri, Mariolina Carfani, Jannie De Weerd, Silvia Guareschi, Carmen Ugolotti. Students: n.6.
Outcome: RICHARD II or THE LORD'S ANOINTED_STUDIO II from Richard II by William Shakespeare.
Fornovo, Hall of the Municipal Council, Nature Gods Theater Festival, 4 September 1999.

THEATER DANCE LABORATORY – A.N.F.F.A.S. INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED. Teachers: Lucia Perego, Maria Federica Masters. Students: Marta Boggio, Claudio Bronzoni, Paola Carta, Michel Diemmi, Matilde Gazzi, Sara Monferdini, Stefania Mazzotta, Laura Pellegri, Barbara Voghera, Elena Varoli, Tania Bedogni, Chiara Dall'Asta. Students: n.12
Outcome: ETHER E IL FALEGNAME_UNA METAMORPHOSI DA PYRAMUS ET THISBE da William Shakespeare.
Parma, Lenz Theatre, 23 maggio 1998.