On Monday, 2 March, we met with two groups of children from a nursery school in Sejny. We recalled traditional games, but also invented our own, such as a “sound blind man’s buff”. We wanted to create an orchestra in which everyone can hear their own voice as well as the voices of others in the group, even the quietest ones. We learned to respond to the pitch of sounds—crouching down for deep, heavy tones and jumping up high when they became as thin as a needle. In the end, we decided to compose our own song, beginning with a simple three-note pattern: bim, bam, bom.
Our tiny project was continued a few weeks later in the Zustrich centre. On March, 30 we were working on musical and verbal compositions in the “little cows and teddy bears orchestra.” As it is in music: thin means high, thick means low — we did some squats and jumps up to the sky. Rhythm and freeze-play games were included in the programme as well. We returned to the triad on which our song “Bim Bam Bom” will be based. What do we sing about? If it’s ours, we get to choose. And surprisingly, it won’t be about heroes or superheroes, games, or tablets — maybe about storks, about cranes, perhaps about water, or maybe about birds playing instruments? We improvise and compose — that’s what our musical play is all about.
The classes were led by Staszek Czyżewski, Kacper Szroeder, and Michał Moniuszko; photographs by Piotr Myszczyński.