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Geremia Lorenzo Lodi

Music & Sound

My mission is to employ music as a tool to support connections between people, while using such a connection to create music together that feels meaningful and personal.

Body Music is making music directly with the body, through voice, movement and body percussion. It is an interactive, accessible and creative practice adaptable to people with different degrees of mobility.

I offered workshops among others through Communitas—an organization devoted to former inmates’ reintegration in society—the Carrefour d’éducation populaire of Point Saint Charles, and the group of caregivers Les Allumettes, a creative group of mutual support based on clowning. The specific goal of such workshops was to support a sense of reciprocity and mutual recognition among participants.

Sample workshop:

Body Music is a way of using the body unusual and therefore revelatory of the body potentials. It is an experience animated by the pleasure of movement. Yet through the process participants also encounter the resistances and limits of their body: limits that can be explored and gently pushed. The workshop, favouring non-verbal communication––proceeds in an uninterrupted flow that capture participants by alternating progressive levels of engagement: inviting them to imitate and explore (call&response, circle singing), experiment (variations) and eventually improvise and create (soloing and being protagonist).

The activities on the one hand develope coordination and synchronization, while on the other guide people’s ability to listen and give voice to their experience.

Example:
Body Rhythms – Sequences involving coordination of upper and lower limbs introduced
through a fun game of expression (e.g. repeating the same sequence based on the following words: MINIMAL, FLAMBOYANT, ROBOTIC)
Silent Rhythm – Each participant performs a repetitive silent movement. Another one gives voice to what he/she “hears” by paying close attention to the quality of the movements.
Words&Rhythms – Creating body percussion sequences based on texted written by the participants.

Video:

Materials:

None

Listed with:

ArtistsInspire

Available for:

In-person workshops, On-line workshops

Contact:

Language(s) of facilitation:

English, French, Italian

Contact:

geremia.lorenzo@gmail.com

https://www.intuitionbodymusic.com/

Montreal

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.

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