The sound exploration laboratories: A space for creation and research in “La Red de Músicas de Medellín”.

Abstract

The sound exploration laboratories for creation and research are a methodological commitment in “la Red de Músicas de Medellín” (RMM), which aims to enable spaces that are characterized by promoting coexistence, creative citizenship, enjoyment and learning music, through experiences that account for the diversity and plurality of community, individuals, and groups. Although this commitment is not unique to the RMM, because there are similar exercises in the country, the different proposals have common elements, for example, proposing research-creation and experimentation processes to motivate creative thinking, the right to creation as a form of knowledge. Also, knowledge as an expansion of multiple forms of creation that enhance the construction of subjectivities. In the laboratories, musical knowledge, the forms of expression and narratives linked to the aesthetics of the different territories are understood as an eminently profound aspect of the subject in its relationship with life, for this reason the experience is united with interaction, between diverse artistic manifestations and some alternative methodological and didactic tools. Thus, confirm experiences and prom critical and creative competencies that are triggered in tune with the intentions defined in the RMM´s Pedagogical Commitment, exemplified, in this case, from two specific experiences called “Lab Pola” and “Loop Lab”