Oficina de sons: uma experiência com o ensino de música utilizando instrumentos musicais construídos com materiais alternativos

Abstract

This monograph is an experience report on the Sound Workshop Project, which uses instruments made from alternative materials in its music classes as a way to expand access to music education in a community at risk of social vulnerability in São Luís do Maranhão. At the beginning of the activities, due to the lack of resources to purchase conventional instruments, the project included the construction of musical instruments with alternative materials as a strategy to provide students with access to a first musical instrument. This action had a profound impact on the project, directing it towards other paths, and transformed the musical, environmental, educational and sociocultural perspectives of all those involved. We present how the classes took place, which musical instruments were used, the process of their construction, the materials used and the difficulties encountered. The work aims to broaden the perspective on the use of these musical instruments and contribute to other similar actions.