Pass The Sound series

You may find institutional backstory of Pass the Sound at http://passthesound.com/information.

The resource that the project provided is a series of videos which present group activities typical for improvisational theatre workshops. The games do not always include agency over the musical content, but if you run a people-centered meetings it is worth adding many of the titles to the repertoire.

Each video not only defines the activity, but shows how facilitators explain it to participants. Some material is in English and sometimes there are subtitles. Production quality is quite high.

Notes on the content

Activities are categorized as Warm-Ups, Skills/Creative Exercises and Workshops. Unfortunately there is some lack of curation for the videos on YouTube, double entries or clearly missing parts from numbered series.

Warm-Up — A simple activity that improves engagement in complex ones

Warm-ups are the most within Games for Music library scope (some are already here, sometimes in a more game-like variant). The first presented set is an editorial choice of the most G4M-suited titles. Click to filter the whole list of warm-ups by topic.

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Zip Zop Zap	attention, rhythm, sound	#4
The Rhythm Mill	challenge, movement, rhythm	#11
The Yell	names, rhythm	#18
Names & Body Percussion	body percussion, names, rhythm	#21
Step In / The Echoing Well	repeating, rhythm	#24
The Ping Pong Ball	movement, some sound	#25
Drive in Burger	body percussion, repeating, rhythm	#27
Stamp Clap Name	names, rhythm	#28

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Exercises and workshops

Other videos show more of the introduction method and have less body percussion and fewer getting-to-know activities. Serious, educational, facilitator-dependent, sometimes silent — these might be exactly the activities you need for your workshop, so consider checking them out.

The Snake	~ Bounce the Sound + acting	#2
The Birth of Music	sounds, with instruments	#5
Collective Story Telling	words	#6
Orchestra of The Junkyard	found sound workshop/process	#8
Creative Lyric Writing	words	#10
Creating Soundscapes	~ Where Are We?, #39	#12
Walking Score	~ Room Score, worshop/process, fits after (!) #16	#14
The Tear and Fold	arts, workshop/process, fits before #14	#16
Personal Postcards	graphic score, workshop/process	#20
Postcode Percussion	algorithm, workshop/process	#21
Silent Concerto	workshop/process (especially interesting!)	#22

Skills Exercises:

Vocal Band, Riff Jamming, Body Percussion Canon, Body Band, Pass the Clap Extention, Pass the Sound Extended, Waking Up Australia, Boy & Girl Clap Variation with Chairs, Names on a Pulse, Names with a Ball, Independent Clap, Stones, Tuning in, Imomusigologo, Exploring Polyphony, Count to Three, Developing a Linear Rhythm, Six Stroke Phase, Feeling Time, Marco Van Basten, How to Teach a Canon, Counting As A Group, Group Tuning, Flying Voices

Workshops:
Musical Chairs, Pass the Sound, Composing the Line, Meta Sounds, Compose the Room, Composing with Data, Flying Canon Balls.

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