La bamboche à bambins (The kids’ party)

A participatory concert by Surnatural Orchestra, tailored to children

Here, we are immersed in a joyful, toddler-friendly soundscape. At first glance, it seems no different from a regular orchestra concert.

However, these special concerts are shorter (around 45 minutes), which helps to keep the young audience’s attention throughout and offers a concentrated experience focused on musical variety and festive arrangements.

A siku workshop (Latin American pan flute) given by two musicians from the orchestra before each performance sets the tone and warms up the audience. The workshops are open to all, and the basics taught will allow everyone to join in the concert with the enthusiasm that comes from wanting to share their instrumental skills.

Through this active participation by children (and everyone else!), it is a way of raising awareness from within and doing so collectively of the sensitive and artistic power of music on a large scale, and its specific characteristics: composition, improvisation, responsiveness, delicacy or mass sound…

Participatory concert

The audience at the heart of the show !

Sikus

Sikus are bamboo flutes originating from the mountains of northern Argentina, traditionally played during processions in the Andes. Lightweight and easily transportable, although manufactured in Lima, our sikus remain very affordable instruments.

Often played solo, the instrument is used in pairs, with one musician playing two flutes, one playing some of the notes and the other playing the rest. The sikus thus form inseparable pairs to create melodies. The sound is fairly easy to produce. All this makes it a very playful instrument, and therefore very suitable for educational use. Developing group playing is our main interest. The completeness of the sounds produced brings a single instrument to life: a kind of human organ.

Soundpainting

Invented by Walter Thompson in the United States in the 1970s, this sign language has since spread throughout the world, both for creating music in real time and as a conducting tool. It is used by musicians as well as dancers, actors, technicians, and others.

Here, we will use it with workshop participants, among ourselves as musicians in the orchestra, and also in real time with the audience, as the simple conducting gestures are easy to understand and use through simple imitation.

One-hour workshops are available for groups of between 10 (minimum) and 35 people (maximum). These workshops can be organised in schools or offered as parent-child activities. The minimum age is 7 years old.

Sikus Workshop

Take the time to discover the instrument, learn how to blow, make a sound, and above all: listen to each other. The idea is to learn pieces in which each person will play only one part, with the parts intertwining to form the melody.

We will learn several pieces that will be played during the concert with Surnatural Orchestra. While learning these melodies, we will introduce participants to some concepts of sound painting, so that they can direct, organise and modulate the amateur participants during the concert and interact with the orchestra.

Body Percussion Workshops

Become aware of rhythm, movement and sound through the body. Explore how to strike, rub, tap, blow, move and listen.

The aim is to create music from simple, collective gestures, to learn to play together, to find a common beat, to listen to others as well as yourself.

This workshop is also a gateway to the La Bamboche à Bambins concert, where participants will rediscover these rhythms on stage, in dialogue with the orchestra.

A fun and lively experience, where the body becomes the primary instrument and music becomes a shared game.

lineup

Naïé Dutrieux / flutes, Clea Torales / flute, alto saxophone, Camille Secheppet / alto saxophone & sopranino saxophone, clarinet, Nicolas Stephan / alto saxophone, Jeannot Salvatori / alto saxophone, Guillaume Christophel / tenor saxophone & soprano saxophone & clarinet, Martin Daguerre / baritone saxophone, Guillaume Dutrieux / trumpet, Hector Léna Schroll / trumpet, Julien Rousseau / euphonium, trumpet, Bertrand Landhauser / trombone, Hanno Baumfelder / trombone, Morgane Pommier / bass trombone, Christelle Séry / guitar, Fabien Debellefontaine / sousaphone, Ianik Tallet / drums

Anne Palomeres / lighting, stage management, Rose Bruneau / sound engineer, Zak Cammoun / sound engineer