MusikLab for Kids
︎Information on our mediation project 2025/26: TBA
Wandering through Sound
as guest in the Foyer Public of Theater Basel | October 2025
For a children's afternoon in the Foyer Public of Theater Basel, KlangLab adapted the installative sound path setting that had been developed for a workshop with the munterwegs association. KlangLab conducted 30-minute workshops with children who decided to participate spontaneously during the children's afternoon, in which the children were assigned to different sound stations in the installation setting and rehearsed and performed a sound sequence/composition together. Afterwards, there was an opportunity to further explore the stations acoustically.
Wandering through Sound
as guest in the Foyer Public of Theater Basel | April 2025
Wandering through Sound was a collaborative project between KlangLab, the munterwegs association and the Foyer Public of Theater Basel. The project was designed as a workshop in which children from the munterwegs association were invited to generate sound using everyday materials and, using seemingly simple actions such as walking, to develop and rehearse a composition together with KL musicians. The two-day workshop culminated in a performance on the third day. The project was documented with video and audio: excerpts from this material were incorporated into the final project of the KlangLab season – Leftover Gifts.
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Photo ©Santiago Villar Martín
KlangLab musicians: Bertrand Gourdy, Zacarias Maia, Chris Moy, Mikael Szafirowski
Klirrende Kälte
as part of Theatre Basel's Family Day | December 2024
KlangLab installed an immersive 4-channel soundscape at Theater Basel's Family Day 2024, in which children could react to a bitterly cold soundscape with acoustic instruments and move through it musically. We based the soundscape on the theme of The Snow Queen, which was the theme of the Family Day.
Music Lab for Kids
as a guest at the Foyer Public of Theater Basel | April 2024
In collaboration with the children's afternoon at the Foyer Public of Theater Basel, KlangLab organised a Music Lab for Kids, inviting children to experiment with sound together. KlangLab installed a setting that brought together various sound-producing materials, including everyday objects.
The Music Lab was realised as three consecutive workshops, each of which began with free experimentation with the setups that KlangLab had installed: these included a large bowl of water with a hydrophone, dry tree leaves, a selection of classical percussion instruments, etc. The KlangLab musicians then spread out across three sound stations and, as the workshop progressed, increasingly guided the children until, at the end, a small-scale, graphically notated composition was performed together.
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KlangLab musicians: Dino Georgeton, Zacarias Maia, Chris Moy, Mikael Szafirowski
Photo ©Santiago Villar Martín
︎Information on our mediation project 2025/26: TBA
Wandering through Sound
as guest in the Foyer Public of Theater Basel | October 2025
For a children's afternoon in the Foyer Public of Theater Basel, KlangLab adapted the installative sound path setting that had been developed for a workshop with the munterwegs association. KlangLab conducted 30-minute workshops with children who decided to participate spontaneously during the children's afternoon, in which the children were assigned to different sound stations in the installation setting and rehearsed and performed a sound sequence/composition together. Afterwards, there was an opportunity to further explore the stations acoustically.
Wandering through Sound
as guest in the Foyer Public of Theater Basel | April 2025
Wandering through Sound was a collaborative project between KlangLab, the munterwegs association and the Foyer Public of Theater Basel. The project was designed as a workshop in which children from the munterwegs association were invited to generate sound using everyday materials and, using seemingly simple actions such as walking, to develop and rehearse a composition together with KL musicians. The two-day workshop culminated in a performance on the third day. The project was documented with video and audio: excerpts from this material were incorporated into the final project of the KlangLab season – Leftover Gifts.
Photo ©Santiago Villar Martín
KlangLab musicians: Bertrand Gourdy, Zacarias Maia, Chris Moy, Mikael Szafirowski
Klirrende Kälte
as part of Theatre Basel's Family Day | December 2024
KlangLab installed an immersive 4-channel soundscape at Theater Basel's Family Day 2024, in which children could react to a bitterly cold soundscape with acoustic instruments and move through it musically. We based the soundscape on the theme of The Snow Queen, which was the theme of the Family Day.
Music Lab for Kids
as a guest at the Foyer Public of Theater Basel | April 2024
In collaboration with the children's afternoon at the Foyer Public of Theater Basel, KlangLab organised a Music Lab for Kids, inviting children to experiment with sound together. KlangLab installed a setting that brought together various sound-producing materials, including everyday objects.
The Music Lab was realised as three consecutive workshops, each of which began with free experimentation with the setups that KlangLab had installed: these included a large bowl of water with a hydrophone, dry tree leaves, a selection of classical percussion instruments, etc. The KlangLab musicians then spread out across three sound stations and, as the workshop progressed, increasingly guided the children until, at the end, a small-scale, graphically notated composition was performed together.
KlangLab musicians: Dino Georgeton, Zacarias Maia, Chris Moy, Mikael Szafirowski
Photo ©Santiago Villar Martín
MusikLab for Kids
Exploring the diverse ways of attentive listening with children and initiating a reflection on listening habits is a goal that KlangLab pursues through the MusikLab for Kids. The musicians invite you to develop small-scale compositions with children and subsequently perform them. The ensemble's experiences from collaborative processes with composers are integrated into music education, aiming to explore an approach to sound that transcends a discipline-oriented perspective, one that moves beyond a dichotomy of musicians as interpreters and composers as creators.
contact:
info@klanglab-ensemble.ch
Exploring the diverse ways of attentive listening with children and initiating a reflection on listening habits is a goal that KlangLab pursues through the MusikLab for Kids. The musicians invite you to develop small-scale compositions with children and subsequently perform them. The ensemble's experiences from collaborative processes with composers are integrated into music education, aiming to explore an approach to sound that transcends a discipline-oriented perspective, one that moves beyond a dichotomy of musicians as interpreters and composers as creators.
contact:
info@klanglab-ensemble.ch