Offered students to experience music differently
In March, the Ąžuolynas Library invited Kaunas city students studying under the Musical Education Program, to get acquainted with the specifics of the creative and communication of people with visual disabilities through practice – creative workshops. The students will present what they have learned and prepared at them at concerts in the fall.
Ona Matusevičiūtė and Laura Stadalnikaitė, a representative of the Lithuanian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired (LASS), told the participants of the first workshops, how they read, writes and communicate blindly, how to play and get to know the notes. The students listened to the recorded sounds and music created by various environmental sounds, learning how to perform two pieces.
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When the participants returned a week later, the second workshop was held with representatives of Kaunas Deaf Center (KKC), Song Song Language Aldona Kvaselyte and Erika Slabadis. During the practical session, students found out that individuals with hearing disabilities also have their favorite music genres, and they experience music and rhythm through vibrations. Specialists mentioned that it is very important to sing together in the case of unheard of: for example, those who hear less need to see better hearing, then feel more rhythm. The project manager Skaidra Grabauskienė mentioned the results of the workshops who exceeded expectations: « We expected the hearing students to learn the sign language to perform the song, and it was in the way that she learned the whole song. »
Kaunas students were the first to participate in this project, but they will not be the only ones – this year will travel to Jonava, Kaišiadorys, Kalvarija, Kėdainiai, Marijampolė and Prienai.
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The project « Light in the Dark, Sound in Silence » is associated with the 125th Braille writer, organized by the initiator of the blind and deaf communities, musician, musician, composer, writer, poet, educator, publicist Pranas Daunis.
