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Launching the Cornwall Youth Noise Orchestra
Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Aim
Cornwall Youth Noise Orchestra - we want to launch a fun orchestra for children in Cornwall who may face barriers to taking part in music.
Cornwall Youth Noise Orchestra
This year, we want to launch our exciting noise orchestra for children, and we need your help!
Why?
A 2019 report by The Music Commission shows that “there is significant inconsistency in the opportunities and spaces for young people to develop their individual and collective music making" and that "the cost barriers to families represent a significant inequality of access to music education”.
Many children in Cornwall can’t afford to learn instruments and gain the benefits their peers enjoy from taking part in high quality music activities (e.g. creative skills, increased confidence, improved wellbeing). Additionally, traditional music theory doesn't suit everyone's style of learning. This means there are inequalities in taking part, and many children are missing out the opportunities to gain skills that could give them a better chance in life.
What will we do to address this?
Our project will help solve these issues by introducing children to music who may usually face barriers to taking part. We'll do this through an alternative approach to music, where no musical knowledge is needed to play our instruments.
Your contributions will help pay for us to run this as a regular experimental orchestra programme this spring/summer. It will help us work with partners to reach children in communities who may usually be excluded from music activities due to cost of lessons/instruments or other inequalities.
Our Cornwall Youth Noise Orchestra is an innovative and playful new programme from Moogie Wonderland. It will involve two groups of children and young people forming their own alternative orchestra, composing on DIY instruments and collaborating with contemporary artists. Through games and playful activities, children will learn music techniques and ideas such as group improvisation, graphic scores (visual alternative to traditional notation), live performance, conducting, structures of classical and experimental music.
Here is some testing of the prototypes we made last year:
Children will also be able to work towards a 'discover and explore' Arts Award (if they want to).
We understand that not everyone is confident to take part in projects like this, however EVERY child and young person has something to gain from creativity. Your support will help us reach and engage new audiences in fun sessions, that will give them confidence and new skills that can give them a better chance in life.
What exactly will money from this Crowdfunder be spent on?
We will use the funds to launch the project as a weekly session from March - July, including two live shows. The money would be used as crucial match funding for a total necessary budget of £38,933 we are fundraising for - so far we have pledges from grant funders and partners for £34,773 but to release this, we need the full amount, so reaching our Crowdfunder target is crucial. The money would go towards:
- Paying musicians/artists and youth facilitators (at Musicians Union fair pay rates)
- Materials and equipment needed for sessions
- Overhead/salary costs only relating to running the orchestra
- Live event & recording costs
- Marketing
- Equipment necessary for the orchestra
More about the Cornwall Youth Noise Orchestra project:
The participating children will be supported by professional musicians and artists. Sessions will focus on playful experimentation and working together. The orchestra will meet every week, including special 'masterclasses', the groups will work towards producing their own performances to be played at a concert.
We are thrilled to be hosted by Falmouth Art Gallery and the sessions will be for 8-11 yr olds and 12-14 yr olds who will meet in separate groups. It will be open to ALL and no prior music knowledge will be needed.
Sessions will be facilitated by experienced arts and youth practitioners, who will support engagement and oversee pastoral care & safeguarding. Everyone involved in our work with children and young people has the relevant DBS checks.
Rewards:
Screen-printed T-Shirt of a section of artist designed graphic score by Matt Ashdown:
Screen-printed T-shirt of Moogie Wonderland's 'Syllabus of the Cornwall Bearhaus' from 2016:
A3 Risograph print of Matt Ashdown's graphic score 'Trigonometry' on 100% recycled paper:
A3 Risograph print of Moogie Wonderland's 'Syllabus of the Cornwall Bearhaus' on 100% recycled paper:
Limited edition A5 collage publication by Moogie Wonderland artists Liz Howell and Matt Ashdown.
16 pages. Risograph printed on 100% recycled paper. Hand numbered edition of 25.
(image coming soon):
About Moogie Wonderland:
Moogie Wonderland is a participatory arts organisation based in Cornwall. We believe that anyone can illuminate their world by discovering their own brilliance.
We want to enable anyone to make personal and creative breakthroughs that can shape their lives and the world around them by providing environments for artistic exploration.
co:noise is our participatory experimental music programme (which the Cornwall Youth Noise Orchestra will be part of). It gets musicians and non-musicians in Cornwall to collaborate and experiment at gigs, experimental jams, noise labs and more. Aphex Twin and Damo Suzuki have joined in at our co:noise events.
Co-directors Matt and Liz have a wealth of experience in arts, music and community projects. Matt has most recently returned from touring the UK with his improv noise rock band Mildred Maude, and has been delivering arts engagement programmes for more than 15 years. Liz is excited to return to independent arts producing and teaching, after over 5 years as Assistant Curator for Tate St Ives’ Young People’s Programme.
Thank you for your support.
This project successfully funded on 24th February 2022