Course for making Amazonian musical bioinstruments; learn how to apply

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The project will make it possible to prepare students for the artistic market, in addition to offering opportunities for financial gain

Manaus (AM) – For the first time, those interested in designing and making musical instruments will be able to learn the trade for free in the Amazonian Bioinstruments Course. Registration will take place next Monday and Tuesday (5th and 6th), from 8 am to 5 pm, in person, at Block F of the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios Cláudio Santoro headquarters, located in the Sambódromo, Avenida Pedro Teixeira, Dom Pedro.

15 vacancies will be made available to the public from 16 years old. Classes will take place from June 12 to July 15, 2023, on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 2 pm to 5 pm.

The Amazonian Bioinstruments course is unprecedented in the state’s art school. The initiative aims to stimulate a creative process of making percussion musical instruments and sound effects, using natural organisms, such as gourds, seeds, hedgehogs, among others. The implementation of the project will make it possible to prepare students for the artistic market in Amazonas, in addition to offering opportunities for financial gains from the sale of their production.

At the end of the course, an Amazonian Bioinstruments Practice Group will be created, with the intention of putting together a mini-orchestra composed of the students. Each member will play the instruments made in their own classes, together with the Gaponga Group, a reference in biomusic and in the repertoire using, exclusively, musical instruments produced from organic materials from the forest.

“Our goal is to develop a taste for and appreciation of our culture, providing students with a dialogue with nature and interaction with the expressive traits of the Amazonian identity”,

says Liceu director Davi Nunes, adding that, at the end of the last class of the course, an artistic presentation will be promoted with the students, on the day and place to be defined.

The director of the Liceu also reinforces that the implementation of the project foresees the possibility of creating a musical movement focused on Amazonian percussion, which is currently developed by the percussionist João Paulo Ribeiro, through various instruments created for this purpose.

*With advisory information

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