If there’s a place for creativity, it’s school. Encouraging it is a continual process, in which music plays a key role. With this in mind, year after year, we hold training activities aimed at general teachers who in some way include music in the educational process. Training at Casa da Música suggests innovative languages and interdisciplinary methods that, being easy to replicate in the classroom, can have a positive effect on the entire curriculum. By giving teachers new skills, this programme contributes to the academic success and education of future creative generations. 

(Re)learning and creating in real time is the challenge proposed in intensive Digitopia courses about the digital tools and programming languages that can be used with music. Held over a weekend, they are eminently practical in nature, always introducing specific software that makes the creative process simple and intuitive.

Although they take up two days - allowing the training to be more profitable - they are structured flexibly, the programme being split into two independent but complementary phases. In this way, it is up to those interested whether to participate in both sessions (Saturday and Sunday) or just one.

Musicians, DJs, digital artists, programmers, teachers and other professionals interested in electronic music and digital art 

Saturdays and Sundays · 11:30-13:00 and 14:30-17:00

 € 15 (1 day) | € 25 (weekend)

SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR TRAINING IN DIGITOPIA € 100

Included in this Subscription is one of the following courses 

The 6th edition of the Open Course on the History of Music has a date with three giants of Western Music: Bach, Beethoven and Wagner - who form a starting point for Paulo Ferreira de Castro to define the source of Germanic music. Sacred music finds its greatest examples in the Lutheran tradition, which is the theme of the second module, taught by Paulo Antunes. Daniel Moreira dedicates the third module to the basic principles of music theory, approaching questions such as the structuring of musical space (notes and loudness), of musical tempo (rhythm and metre), of melody, counterpoint and harmony. Banned music is the theme of the fourth module, in which Rui Pereira looks at the music of composers banned during the Third Reich.  The course closes with three sessions devoted to the myth of Faust in music, a topic in which Carlos de Pontes Leça explores the main literary sources from the 16th century until Goethe, the Faustian wave in Paris in the 19th century or the apotheosis of Goethe in Mahler, going through well-known musical examples by Spohr, Schubert, Wagner, Liszt, Schumann, Boito, Busoni, Schnittke and Dusapi, among others.  Aimed at audiences educated in diverse areas and with no specific knowledge of music, the course provides a general framework to diverse topics in the history of music, also focusing on aspects unrelated to music, promoting interdisciplinarity, making use of illustrative examples relating to the places and protagonists that mark our culture.

Mondays 17:30 to 19:15

Cybermusic

Individual modules of two sessions: € 16

Individual modules of three sessions: € 24

Full course: € 60

The Music Performers’ Training Course reaches two digits with an extraordinary momentum that can’t be quantified. Since 2005, more than 150 participants have taken part in this programme, which translates their active involvement into dozens of artistic and community projects, reaching thousands of people. Then there’s the fractal effect: whenever someone from the course takes their new skills to a community or onto the stage, it means reliving their emotional work with other people. We know this because good children come back to Casa da Música and are frequent visitors. Some of them even stay here...

Established in order to make up for a lack of musical education in Portugal, which was in need of a more extended approach, the course enables musicians to invigorate their activities with communities and to lead creative interventions. Improvisation, interaction and teamwork form a programme of musical creation and encouragement which starts with an artistic appraisal of participants.

Structured in four modules, linked to artistic and performance projects with groups from different social and cultural contexts, this activity runs from October to the start of July, culminating, as ever, with Sonópolis. In this city festival, which exhibits the various community interventions carried out during the academic year, the trainees also perform as a music ensemble. This energy has been present since the first edition, and it is with this dynamic that this clearly successful training event continues, guided by internationally recognised creators, such as Paul Griffiths, Sam Mason, Tim Steiner and Peter Letanka.

€ 100 per module (total of 4 modules)

Register by sending CV to seducativo@casadamusica.com by 25 September 2014