Experiri Ensemble
2024 - ongoing
Workshop
Bcn Crea Grant 2023
In collaboration with Mike Cooper & CC Convent de Sant Agustí.
Experiri Ensemble is an ongoing improvisation workshop that promotes intergenerational dynamics of inclusive, diverse, empathetic, and egalitarian creation. It fosters an intuitive and non-hierarchical process where listening is deemed almost more important than one's own execution.
These sessions provide a space to move beyond familiar boundaries and confront the internalized opinions shaping our appreciation of music. By rediscovering collectivity through improvisation, participants engage in unique, non-replicable social spaces that promote diverse dynamics. The focus is on creating music free from capitalist logic, untied to whether it is a commodity, and emphasizing experimentation with sound as a vital part of our biological and social fabric.
The workshops also provide an opportunity to connect with a diverse group of like-minded individuals from various ages and backgrounds. The participatory, collective, and collaborative methodology fosters dialogue and promotes interactions that extend beyond the realm of sound. In this environment, every performance is valued; musical expertise or achieving specific outcomes are not prerequisites. It is about embracing the diversity of perspectives.
However, today's lifestyle is characterized by consumption habits where the tendency, both for institutions and businesses, is to organize activities within specific age groups, assuming the needs of those (consumers) they are targeting. In doing so, we lose not only the ability to create intergenerational connections and initiatives but also the opportunity to share and acquire transgenerational experiences and knowledge.
As many studies point out, these interactions within a shared process generates intellectual, physical, and emotional benefits in both directions. Therefore, it is important to start rethinking the spaces for these encounters, understanding that the needs of society, and especially of people, are constantly changing.
