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The enjoyment of music is fundamental for everyone: not only listening to it but also participating actively in it. People with disabilities have certain limitations, both physical and cognitive, which make access to the practical aspects difficult. Apart from playing an instrument, dance also constitutes a fundamental form of emotional expression; a way of knowing one’s body better in order to develop physical and mental abilities and build social relationships.

The course on interactivity at UPACE-San Fernando draws to a close.

05/12/2012

The Open Music Foundation successfully closed the course on physical interaction targeted at people affected by cerebral palsy and their caregivers which has been taking place over the last few days at San Fernando’s cerebral palsy centre (UPACE). Read more...

Third day in the EyeCon training course at San Fernando’s UPACE:

05/10/2012

The first item in the morning session was a series of workout routines led by Josepha Dietz before students followed Robert Wechsler’s overview of some theoretical underpinnings of the EyeCon programme. Later in the day the students attended the first interactive workshop with people affected by cerebral palsy and met in groups in order to design exercises to be practised over the next day.

The Open Music Foundation runs a full-week training course on the use of the EyeCon motion-tracking tool including practical workshops at the Cerebral Palsy Center (UPACE) in San Fernando (Cádiz).

05/09/2012

First day in the EyeCon training course: on Monday both Robert Wechsler and Josepha Dietz provided therapists at the UPACE Centre with an overview of motion tracking systems and their potential in the treatment of physical and/or cognitive impairment. Next they directed a series of body-motion routines before starting intensive work on the EyeCon system.

A very moving closing day at the 2nd Interactive Dance Workshop held in Valladolid.

05/07/2012

The wokshop’s third and final day gave us the opportunity to check out some proposals involving the “creation” of music through body movement. Robert Wechsler and Josepha Dietz engaged the collaboration of some of the people from the Obregón Cerebral Palsy Centre as well as a group of mobility impaired students from the José Zorrilla School of Secondary Education. Click here to watch the video.

Second day at the 2nd Interactive Dance Worshop.

05/06/2012

During the morning session, a group of students with reduced mobility from the José Zorrilla School of Secondary Education put up a number of sound pieces created through body movement.

Valladolid’s 2nd Interactive Dance Workshop gets through its first day:

05/02/2012

Robert Wechsler and Josepha Dietz (Palindrome Intermedia Performance Group, Germany) discussed several motion tracking techniques which they are currently developing as well as their applications for people with disabilities.

Interactive Dance Workshop

04/24/2012

How would you feel if you were able to create music through body motion? Can you imagine the potential applications of such a possibility in the fields of music teaching, artistic creation or even therapy for people with impaired mobility?

Read more about the Workshop

The Open Music Foundation to be presented at the Amaniel Music School in Madrid

03/30/2012

On Friday 13 April there will take place a formal presentation of the OMF organized by the Music School itself and Madrid’s Regional Ministry of Education.