Neither teachers nor animators, we nevertheless like to transmit a certain know-how, built up over these fifteen years of existence of our orchestra: writing, arrangements, improvisations, organization. About ten “soundpainters”, members of the group, regularly take part in workshops intended for various audiences, musicians or not.
A universal language of directed collective improvisation, soundpainting is as exciting to practice for experienced musicians as it is for novice amateurs. Orality, and the fact that no notion of music theory is a compulsory preliminary, make it a playful tool, immediately usable, an Esperanto of improvised music…
Initiation is possible in many ways: with a constituted ensemble, an orchestra formed for the occasion, within existing structures (music school, school, conservatory, association, etc.), and/or before a concert of Supernatural Orchestra.
Strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, but also voices, bodily movements danced or not… all modes of expression lend themselves to it for those who want to grasp this rich language of nearly 700 signs, which allows all exchanges between speakers and participants. .
Two musicians usually run a workshop jointly. These modular rehearsals, in terms of numbers and frequency (from 6 to 60 participants, for from one to 10 sessions) follow performances indoors, outdoors, in concert, cinema-concert, in the wedding hall of a town hall , under marquees, in Medical Educational Institutes…
Banda Caracol – Surnatural Orchestra Workshop
Season 2024-25
Banda Caracol – Surnatural Orchestra Workshop
Season 2024-25
This season (2024-2025), Surnatural Orchestra will be reassembling Banda Caracol, an amateur orchestra open to all: adults, teenagers and children who already play an instrument.
Rehearsals on Wednesdays from 7pm to 10pm, from Wednesday 2 October 2024,
at 24 rue Davoust, 93500 Pantin
Reflecting the multi-cultural richness of the local residents, the repertoire will cross every continent. Music with hair and bones. Vietnamese rumba, waltzes for centipedes, oceanic trance, songs of battle against the Night, lullabies to whisper in the desert… and compositions by Surnatural Orchestra.
In three-hour sessions we’ll be playing rhythmic games, improvising and learning songs, not forgetting (we’re playing, we’re playing, we’re playing!)… a bite to eat together. And as soon as the first notes are ready, we’ll play them on Sundays at the local café, for the neighbourhood party, in the park, in a garden… until the whole of Bagnolet knows them by heart and sings them with us.
A fine handful of musicians from Collectif Surnatural: Laurent Géhant, Fabrice Theuillon, Camille Secheppet. Nicolas Stephan, Francois Roche-Juárez, Clea Torales and some supernatural guests will take turns leading this ensemble, coordinated by Cléa Torales, flutist/saxophonist and super secret agent in the listening and cajoling department.
For registrations and further information, please contact Clea by e-mail at the following address