The Color of Music
The "Color of Music" exhibition and workshop, a project realized under patronage of the Borusan Culture and Art Center, is due to take place in the Borusan Art Gallery, between the dates of September 15th and 23rd, 2000.
In addition to the exhibition of works produced during the past three years, the participants arranged in small groups, will, with the accompaniment of music, fix with magnets on a giant steel sheet, geometric cuts of fabrics, and thus create together an abstract composition. Three-dimensional designs created with colored wires are also planned on the same occasion.
Sonya Tansever, who realized these workshop undertakings explains her goals as follows : A particular medium has to be created in order to promote the research and discovery of esthetic stimulation which will give the youngsters a possibility of expressing freely their feelings on sounds and harmony.
In this medium, experiments and research will first be conducted to acquaint the children with the sounds and the instruments : "Where do all the sounds we hear come from ?" - "What makes these sounds ?" - "How can we create new sources of sounds ?" In order to answer these questions, we have started by making a small sound laboratory where together with the children we have accumulated a number of simple sound making devices . We then used these "instruments" to conduct amusing (though noisy) "jam sessions". The program foresees the visit of musicians to the workshop at regular intervals. Furthermore, by making them listen to different types of music from assorted periods and various regions of our world, and by transparency (Dia) shows, many children learned about Klee, Miro, Kandinsky, Bach and Jazz for the first time.
Instead of stereotyped esthetic opinions and imposed pre-conceptions, we have made efforts to keep children as much as possible away from critical evaluations such as "beautiful/ugly" or "clean/dirty", and other weighty concepts. In this manner, we have tried to clear the fear of failure present in so many children, and thus to create a unconstrained medium where all feelings and ideas can be expressed freely.
By striving to unlatch the doors of the artistic world's to young children, the Borusan Art Center's "Color of Music" Workshop is trying to promote multi-dimensional thinking and imagination in a environment where they will feel totally free. Creativeness is an unavoidable element for the healthy development of personality. By expressing himself creatively, the individual will attain feelings of success and self-reliance, which will influence positively all his endeavors in all his activities.
In addition to the exhibition of works produced during the past three years, the participants arranged in small groups, will, with the accompaniment of music, fix with magnets on a giant steel sheet, geometric cuts of fabrics, and thus create together an abstract composition. Three-dimensional designs created with colored wires are also planned on the same occasion.
Sonya Tansever, who realized these workshop undertakings explains her goals as follows : A particular medium has to be created in order to promote the research and discovery of esthetic stimulation which will give the youngsters a possibility of expressing freely their feelings on sounds and harmony.
In this medium, experiments and research will first be conducted to acquaint the children with the sounds and the instruments : "Where do all the sounds we hear come from ?" - "What makes these sounds ?" - "How can we create new sources of sounds ?" In order to answer these questions, we have started by making a small sound laboratory where together with the children we have accumulated a number of simple sound making devices . We then used these "instruments" to conduct amusing (though noisy) "jam sessions". The program foresees the visit of musicians to the workshop at regular intervals. Furthermore, by making them listen to different types of music from assorted periods and various regions of our world, and by transparency (Dia) shows, many children learned about Klee, Miro, Kandinsky, Bach and Jazz for the first time.
Instead of stereotyped esthetic opinions and imposed pre-conceptions, we have made efforts to keep children as much as possible away from critical evaluations such as "beautiful/ugly" or "clean/dirty", and other weighty concepts. In this manner, we have tried to clear the fear of failure present in so many children, and thus to create a unconstrained medium where all feelings and ideas can be expressed freely.
By striving to unlatch the doors of the artistic world's to young children, the Borusan Art Center's "Color of Music" Workshop is trying to promote multi-dimensional thinking and imagination in a environment where they will feel totally free. Creativeness is an unavoidable element for the healthy development of personality. By expressing himself creatively, the individual will attain feelings of success and self-reliance, which will influence positively all his endeavors in all his activities.
