Belongalong
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Belongalong
Unleash Your Senses: A Workshop for Immersive Connection and Play with Belongalong
“I felt like we were creatures… we were no longer humans”. BELONGALONG, at its heart, seeks non-ordinary ways to find playful connection and presence with others. A collective and connective multi-sensorial musical experience, Belongalong invites deep collaborative listening and an expansion of the senses by playing with sounds, images, and space. Participants play the Belongalong instrument composed of 12 touch-sensitive sound-emanating boxes. Their vibrations are felt in the body and immediately participants realise that they themselves are the essential medium of the experience. Nothing comes to life without their collective intention.
Through the use of evocative imagery, music and soundscapes, hosts Leyla de Muynck and Christopher Bowen guide the participants from the discovery of the instrument through a series of visual and sonic pieces creating a relational field that encourages collaborative listening, opening up space for others and a feeling of connection in an otherworldly exploration of community.
Space is limited to 12 participants per slot
Duration: 30 minutes
Time-slots: 18:30 & 19:45
Artist’s Statement
Belongalong is inspired by the language of music and the sense of play that musicians have with each other. There’s a field of feeling that musicians create when performing with other musicians. Each musician contributes to the changing musical flow, experiencing their parts against the others while the resonances of their instruments vibrate against their bodies and into the space around them. It’s a sensation that lets them live in a kind of pre-verbal space with each other, allowing them to connect and communicate on a different, more visceral, level. This particular feeling of collaboration was my inspiration to create a similar field for other groups of people (musical or not) to have this same experience themselves. Visit the website.
DOOR Foundation (Stichting DOOR) aims to foster cross-collaborations between classical and underground theatre, performance and other artistic forms of expression to enrich the cultural day and night city landscape. It is located in a 3,000m2 warehouse in the NDSM area in Amsterdam Noord.
DOOR Foundation (Stichting DOOR) aims to foster cross-collaborations between classical and underground theatre, performance and other artistic forms of expression to enrich the cultural day and night city landscape. It is located in a 3,000m2 warehouse in the NDSM area in Amsterdam Noord.
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