Creative Music and Sensorial Languages for Interculture
 

Author:

Claudio Cominardi

Abstract
In nowadays’ multimedia and multicultural society, music did penetrate in the wholeness of the expressive languages gaining a more and more complex and transversal role, integrated with every form of communication.

The path of such integration developed from the Twentieth Century’s artistic languages that, starting from the common relationship within the expressive and sensorial media such as sound, colour and body-movement, not only bred new expression and communication aesthetics, but also influenced social belongings, ethnicities and generations, getting different cultures closer to a more and more global and interactive language within the cultures themselves.

The intercultural research and planning within the expressive media such as music and arts can therefore start from communication’s perceptive and sensorial elements, innate in each individual, put in common within the musical and extramusical language, able to develop new integrated languages within different cultures, in the contemporarity of our social realities.

This point recently gave birth to the experimentation, in multicultural groups of children, of a methodology made of creative improvisation integrated within sound, movement and colour, based on the meeting within sensorial perception and contemporary musical/artistic languages (particularly the ones from the 50s’ until nowadays).

Such paths did stimulate creative processes that are structured on three main targets: the relational integration of the group, the development of expressive autonomy and the extension of attentive times in each child, in an environment that enables the exploration and the experience of new languages which are free from the usual application of these mediums.

The result: these groups have spontaneously elaborated and developed new languages that can be shared among themselves, completely re-projecting a meeting field that enabled different cultures to interact with more knowledge and openness, calibrating on the topicality of the social contexts they belong to.

Keywords:
creative, music, sensorial, languages, interculture

Biografical details
Claudio Cominardi: music therapist, Brescia, Italy. Engaged with projects and research in the field of integration, interculture and prevention of social discomfort in schools and services for minors. He works with music-therapy for the rehabilitation and integration of handicap.