Community Project
Ocarinas / percusión acuática – Primaria y telesecundaria de Agua Zarca / Staff Casa Wabi
Clay Ocarinas
Tania worked with the Agua Zarca School and with the 5th and 6th grade students of Miguel Hidalgo Elementary for 2 sessions. The objective of the project was to create an assembly of ocarinas and record the different sounds that can be obtained from them to create an audiovisual piece. The two sessions were held at Casa Wabi. The first session the participants were presented with the project, they were shown a documentary video about the different types of ocarinas that exist in Mexico and the different sounds they produce, later they went on to the elaboration and manufacture of the ocarinas within the Pavilion of Barro de Álvaro Siza, where each student had the opportunity to create two ocarinas of different sounds. After the oven baking of the pieces; the second session was organized. Which consisted of taking the participants to the Casa Wabi observatory to record with a video camera and microphones, sounds
of each of the ocarinas created in the workshop. Different assemblies were made until creating. Sufficient material to create the documentary video of the project.
Water percussions
The artist worked with the women of the kitchen and cleaning staff of Casa Wabi along with some other inhabitants of San Isidro Llano Grande. The objective of this project was to create an ensemble made up of women exclusively, where they would make different rhythms created by the tapping of their hands on the water, thus creating a feminine ritual where the forces of all the members were combined, to achieve a sound piece and visual, which was recorded on video.
During the first session, the project was presented to the participants and different examples were shown of how in other cultures women make aquatic rhythms as ceremonial acts. A first rehearsal was done using plastic tubs to look for the different rhythms that could be created between them. Later on it was passed to the pool of Casa Wabi to put into practice what was tested. In the second session, the percussion ensemble was filmed.
Clay Ocarinas
Tania worked with the Agua Zarca School and with the 5th and 6th grade students of Miguel Hidalgo Elementary for 2 sessions. The objective of the project was to create an assembly of ocarinas and record the different sounds that can be obtained from them to create an audiovisual piece. The two sessions were held at Casa Wabi. The first session the participants were presented with the project, they were shown a documentary video about the different types of ocarinas that exist in Mexico and the different sounds they produce, later they went on to the elaboration and manufacture of the ocarinas within the Pavilion of Barro de Álvaro Siza, where each student had the opportunity to create two ocarinas of different sounds. After the oven baking of the pieces; the second session was organized. Which consisted of taking the participants to the Casa Wabi observatory to record with a video camera and microphones, sounds
of each of the ocarinas created in the workshop. Different assemblies were made until creating. Sufficient material to create the documentary video of the project.
Water percussions
The artist worked with the women of the kitchen and cleaning staff of Casa Wabi along with some other inhabitants of San Isidro Llano Grande. The objective of this project was to create an ensemble made up of women exclusively, where they would make different rhythms created by the tapping of their hands on the water, thus creating a feminine ritual where the forces of all the members were combined, to achieve a sound piece and visual, which was recorded on video.
During the first session, the project was presented to the participants and different examples were shown of how in other cultures women make aquatic rhythms as ceremonial acts. A first rehearsal was done using plastic tubs to look for the different rhythms that could be created between them. Later on it was passed to the pool of Casa Wabi to put into practice what was tested. In the second session, the percussion ensemble was filmed.
