Workshops for the year 2012-13:






                                   Workshop about the sound

Every thing which surrounds us in the everyday life, we learnt to know it.
His detection runs mainly through the sense of sight, referring to shape and colour. The sense of touch too may help or be sufficient to identify a thing, as well as sense of smell or taste talking about food.
And the sense of hearing?
During the day the sense of hearing is like asleep, it submits to other senses. And also during the day we are continuously bombed by noises and sounds melting between them. We are so tolerant that we don’t realize them anymore. The buzzing of air-conditioners, of refrigerators, of computers, of running engines is everywhere as well as the humming of people and the ringing of telephones.
In addition to this there’s omnipresent background music. We hear without listening to this sonorous hotchpotch.
But as the night comes our hearing awakes... It wanders around the house being able to recognize every little sound. The drop falling from the tap of the bathroom, the living room door being opened, the ticking of a clock, somebody’s steps. We can even recognize whose the steps are.


Aim of the workshop

What we will try to do is to awake the precious sense of hearing during day time, to discover together that all the things have their own sound.
And that it exists a precise relationship between sound and mathematics.
First of all the sound to be heard has to be in the right quantity (volume).
The sound besides can give us informations about the material with which an object is made, and sometimes also about its shape (timbre).
Dimension of sonorous source on the contrary influence the pitch of the sound.
There are objects with a sound so beautiful they can be… played.
And surprises don’t stop here: there are things able to imitate the sound of other things…

For workshop’s achievement

The workshop is dedicated to children of the age of 6 to 10 and is conducted by 2 teachers.
In order to keep the workshop it is sufficient a place to gather seated children and with space enough for teachers’ movement.
Materials utilized are composed by a set of common use objects (from domestic objects to those used in carpentry) partially assembled to be “played”.
The workshops ends with the song “Quello che conta”, dedicated to Pythagoras, the first one to study the relationship between music an mathematics.
The participation of children is interactive.
All the necessary furniture for the workshop is supplied by the association.

FOR THE SCHOOL:
Participants:        1 class, discount with participation of a second
                              class
Site of the event: school
Schedule:              to be defined during school hours

PRIVATS, PUBLIC BODIES:
Participants:         minimum number of 12
Site of the event: Association's seat, library
Schedule:             in the Association's seat: every 2 weeks,                               by booking;  - CALENDAR -
                              in library: to be defined