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A Workshop to
Create Music
from Scratch

Invent Music is a workshop to create music regardless of knowledge or skills in existing music. Since I do not use any existing musical instruments and are not based on existing music theory, there is no knowledge or experience on music needed.

Can be applied for team building education art therapy etc.

What We Do

Part One
Find the Border Between Music and Sound
Think about what "music" that we are going to create is, and find out what we need to achieve it.
  • Think What is "music"?
  • Think What is to "perform"?
  • Think What are "musical instruments"?
  • Think What are "songs"?
  • Think What do we need to create "music" at a minimum?
    • Do Make "sounds" / Make sounds "musically"
    • Think Is this "sound" or "music" for you?
  • Think Two elements that might let you cross the border between sound and music
Part Two
Create Your Own Musical Instrument
Each participant create his/her own musical instrument.
  • Do Decide on a type of your musical instrument
  • Do Decide on a structure of your musical instrument
  • Do How to create idiophones
  • Do How to create reed aerophones
  • Do How to create membranophones
  • Do How to create chordphones
  • Do How to create aerophones / hydraulophones
Part Three
Create Music
Design your own tuning and notation system.
  • Do Design your own tuning system
  • Do Design your own notation system
  • Do Create music
Part Four
Do Live Performances
Do live performances using your own tuning and notation system.
Part Five
Sharing
  • Listen to the recordings
  • Share what you think

Organised So Far

1 Sep, 2024 - Sagamihara, Japan Sagamihara Municipal Yaguchidai Elementary School 5th grade
11 Jun, 2017 Utrecht, Netherlands 't Strandpaviljoen 6 - 12 years old
17 May, 2017 Den Haag, Netherlands Haagse Toren Adult
16 Apr, 2017 Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands (Private venue) Adult
14 Feb, 2017 Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands Christelijke Basisschool Coolsma 4 - 10 years old
12 Dec, 2014 Wellington, New Zealand English Teaching College Adult
27 Oct, 2013 Itoshima, Japan Itoshima Shared House Adult
14 Jul, 2012 Nagoya, Japan Parlwr Adult
1 Jul, 2012 Hokuto, Japan Seisen-ryo Adult
23 Jun, 2012 Tokyo, Japan (Private venue) Adult
15 Jun, 2012 Nagoya, Japan School "Kokoro To Manabi Dot Com" 3rd grade of junior high school
12 May, 2012 Nagoya, Japan Nunc Nusq Adult
12 May, 2012 Nagoya, Japan Naka Learning Centre Adult
6 May, 2012 Osaka, Japan fence works studio CAVE Adult
31 Mar, 2012 Ichinomiya, Japan Tsukuru Adult
25 Mar, 2012 Nagoya, Japan (Private venue) Adult
10 Mar, 2012 Toyota, Japan Cafe Soma Adult
18 Feb, 2012 Nagoya, Japan (Private venue) Adult

What People Say

楽しかったです。音楽をかたく思っていたのを、はずしてもらった感じで、自由なんだーと思いニッコリしました。毎日の生活で楽しみが増えました。

Translated It was fun. I can't help smiling since I found out that music is freer than I had thought. I have found something to entertain myself with in my daily life.

— 14 Jul 2012 | Nagoya, Japan
音楽には遠い生活をしている中で、こうして様々なモノを使って音をつくりだして、人といっしょに音を楽しむという体験は本当に楽しかったです。いつのまにか自分が笑顔になっていて、とても素敵な気持ちとなりました。

Translated It was a lot of fun creating and enjoying sound with someone else together using a variety of things as music is something distant for me.

— 27 Oct 2013 | Fukuoka, Japan
自分の好きな時に好きな音を出すのがこんなにも楽しいんだなぁと思いました。「音楽」を作ろうとなった2回目の録音の時に、参加者一人一人がお互いの音を聴くことに意識が向かっていて、その感覚が重なった時に、皆で合奏している感じがして、とても楽しかったです。

Translated I didn't know making any sound I want anytime was such a fun. Everyone was focusing on listening to each other in the second recording and I felt I am playing a role as a part of the band.

— 14 Jul 2012 | Nagoya, Japan
森の中にいるみたい。動物の鳴き声。目を閉じていると音の遠近感がより強く感じられた。「リズム」を知って、明らかに「音楽」ができたと思う。「自分も参加したい」という思いが強くなった。

Translated It's like being in a forest, listening to animals. My sense of distance got sharper when closing my eyes. Obviously the sound turned into "music" knowing "rhythm". Felt stronger that I want to be involved.

— 6 May 2012 | Osaka, Japan
5分間の音出しの時、最初は自分が思うようにだらだら音を出していたけど、しだいに周りの音を聞くようになって、それに合わせるように音を出している時があった。大きな音で、リズムのある音があったから、それにひっぱられてる感もあって、そう感じたら、また自分だけのリズムになった。→集団での人とのつきあい方も似てるかも?はじめは自分楽しもう!と場に参加して話をするけど、しだいに色んな人の話をきいて、へーって思って、でもそこで終わるんじゃなくて、自分の感じたこととかをまた話し出す。そんな感覚と似ているような気がした。どこで人の音をきくか、自分の音を出すか、帰るか、そういったタイミングの違いがそれぞれあっておもしろいと思った。

Translated At the beginning, I was just making sound I want and didn't care what others are doing, but gradually I started listening and was making sound reacting to them. When I realised that I was guided by the loud and clear rhythm, my own sense of rhythm came back. It might be similar to how teams and communities work. Trying to have fun at the beginning, and start listening to the others, but it also leads me to speak what I think. When to listen, when to speak, when to leave - very interesting to see the difference in each one.

— 23 Jun 2012 | Tokyo, Japan
Very interesting. I always thought I can't play music even though I've always wanted to.

— 12 Dec 2014 | Wellington, New Zealand

About Payment

Fee
Varies depending on the project
Additional fees
Collaborator
Credit card: 4.6% of the item price
PayPal (credit card): 8.7% of the item price
PayPal (bank transfer): 7.4% of the item price
Shipping: none
Participant
None
Payment methods
Collaborator
Credit card / PayPal / bank transfer
Participant
Credit card / cash
When to pay
The time of workshop
When to get delivered
The time of workshop
Return / refund
Collaborator
If notified before 24 hours prior to the appointment: refundable
After 24 hours prior to the appointment: not refundable
Participant
Upfront: Various according to a project
After the workshop has started: not refundable

I Can Organise it for You

This workshop can be organised in the ways below.
  • On-site: Kazune goes to the venue and organise the workshop
  • Remote: Participants assemble in the venue and Kazune organise the workshop remotely
  • Supervise: Kazune supervises the workshop and you organise the workshop
You can choose multiple ways e.g. supervise + remote, or combining with other workshop or lectures.
Language
English / Japanese
For Whom
  • Nurseries
  • Schools
  • Universities
  • After-school care centres
  • Hospitals
  • Welfare facilities
  • Team building
Contact me even if your venue does not apply to any of above.
Duration
For individual workshop: about 30 minutes - 2 hours
For months-long program: several months
Capacify
min. 4 people - no upper limit
Ages Admitted
4 years old and over
What to Bring
  • Things to make sound (other than "instruments" which are allowed to share with others)
Equipments Needed
  • Quiet room
  • Screen (or white wall, white board, etc.)
  • Sockets (consuming approx. 400W)
  • Chairs
  • ACs (mid summer or winter, depinding on the weather)
Staffs Needed
  • Assistant
  • Cameraperson (for photos)
  • Cameraperson (for videos)

* can also be served by the same person.
How to Organise Yourself
Explained in this page (Japanese).
You can send me a request from the form below.

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