SANJOMIX

During this first block, we carried out several introductory activities to the idea of remixing from different approaches and applying it to different formats: drawing, storytelling, body and music. We use graphic collage as a mediating element to remix stories, to create new subjects at school and to explore the remixing of different music. These activities aim to value remixing as a creative process and to naturalize the fact that we are all, to a greater or lesser extent, the result of mixing processes, starting with teachers.

In the introduction to remixing that takes place in the first block, the music teacher allows the students to discover where their teachers' families come from and what music is associated with those places. This opens up possibilities to start thinking about the origins of the students and their families through music. The second block is based on the idea of Musical Life History as a tool to investigate and recognize the existing diversity in the classroom through music. These HdVM are placed in interactive group landscapes built by the students through collage. In this way of working, central to our approach, music is placed in our life stories and in maps (landscapes in this case).

After finishing the second block with the recording of musical life stories, the songs selected by the students have been charged with emotions and meaning during the process. This material is ideal to encourage a collective musical creation through remixing. In this third block we experiment and play with this material, creating new musical pieces musical pieces. Through playful and creative group exercises, we intend to approach in a clear and graphic way the idea that we are all, to a greater or lesser extent, the result of mixing processes.

We leave the school to collect musical life stories, we interview other people who live and work in the neighborhood. We learn to edit the interviews to create a sound map of the musical memory of the neighborhood.

After the first year of work of Talleres Antropoloops at CEIP San José Obrero with 5th grade students (2017-18), Zemos98 approached us about the possibility of participating in a European project they were developing together with Krytyka Polityczna (Poland) and the European Cultural Foundation (Netherlands): "Culture for Solidarity". The idea was to collaborate with Polish artist Sebastian Świąder by doing a workshop during the first quarter of the 2018-19 academic year, our second year of the project. Our idea is to establish a correspondence-dialogue with other children in Poland, to reflect/understand our differences and our similarities from the most everyday spaces. An approach to other contexts where to promote curiosity for the other from the sound.

After finishing the second block with the recording of musical life stories, the songs selected by the students have been charged with emotions and meaning during the process. This material is ideal to encourage a collective musical creation through remixing. In this third block we experiment and play with this material, creating new musical pieces musical pieces. Through playful and creative group exercises, we intend to approach in a clear and graphic way the idea that we are all, to a greater or lesser extent, the result of mixing processes.

The aim of the project is to create a remix musical piece collaboratively among the students of 3 educational centers (Tamer Özyurt İlköğretim School in Istanbul, Bullerbyn Free Democratic School in Warsaw and CEIP San José Obrero in Seville). A process of musical dialogue is developed from recordings made in the music classroom in the 3 schools. Throughout this conversation and exchange of loops we build a musical collage in play.antropoloops.com that can be explored and interpreted at the end of the process in the 3 schools.