UNAB Faculty of Music Collaboration: Body Awareness Program
Sent: 2024-04-22 · Recipients: 181 · Campaign ID: 88
Pre-header: We recently had a chance to work with a group of young musicians and their professors. The focus was on the significance of body awareness in performance…
UNAB Collaboration
Section titled “UNAB Collaboration”
As a part of the new wave of our specialized programming, we recently had a chance to work with a group of young musicians and the professors from the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga in Colombia. The focus was on understanding of how technical skills mesh with physical body conditioning and the expressive aspects of performance.
It was exciting to see how the students grasped the Baseworks principles and applied them to their activities straight away.
We had a few thought-provoking discussions with their professors about practical approaches to teaching “stage presence,” addressing stage anxiety, and the relationship between spatial abilities and music improvisation. We published an article with a report of the details of this collaboration.
CTA: READ REPORT
Upcoming Event — Montreal, Canada
Section titled “Upcoming Event — Montreal, Canada”
In this workshop, we will introduce the Baseworks Movement Principles and fundamental movement patterns, focusing on perceptual changes. The workshop will also introduce the 3 types of body awareness framework and some basic neuroscience of decision-making and action.
CTA: MORE INFO
BRAIN FODDER — Coding and Critical Thinking
Section titled “BRAIN FODDER — Coding and Critical Thinking”
The connection between coding and critical thinking is collaborative. Generally, coding helps advancing problem-solving abilities. Creative programmers have to be critical thinkers as they have to dissect complex problems into manageable segments during coding. This process involves analyzing issues, identifying patterns, establishing logical sequences, and envisioning potential outcomes — all essential elements of critical thinking.
Additionally, debugging code requires systematic troubleshooting, prompting programmers to critically evaluate error origins and devise effective solutions. Coding not only sharpens technical skills but also nurtures an analytical, adaptable, and creative problem-solving mindset, crucial for robust critical thinking.
In coding, it’s common to rely on standard methods that usually work well, but don’t cover every situation.
When we needed specific functions for our websites and apps, we worked with some web developers and coders who just didn’t get our ideas. So we learned to code. During the process we started to see the correlations to the work that we do in the practice and it really inspired us to dig deeper.
In Baseworks, we work on breaking down complex tasks into simple movements for the purpose of reassessing and analyzing what’s appropriate at any given time and what specific outcomes are going to benefit the actual circumstance.
We will cover more on this topic respectfully — please stay posted. In the meantime, if you have any thoughts or ideas related to how any kind of practice can crossover with other modalities of thinking and learning, send us an email to ideas@baseworks.com.
Links Referenced
Section titled “Links Referenced”| Anchor | URL |
|---|---|
| READ REPORT (UNAB) | https://baseworks.com/communications/movement-for-musicians-the-impact-of-body-awareness/ |
| Baseworks Movement Principles | https://baseworks.com/baseworks-key-principles/ |
| MORE INFO (Montreal workshop) | https://baseworks.com/event/baseworks-foundation-montreal/ |
| ideas@baseworks.com | mailto:ideas@baseworks.com |
Correlations
Section titled “Correlations”- patrick-oancia — sender / workshop lead
- asia-shcherbakova — sender / collaboration lead
Follow-up report from the March 2024 UNAB Bucaramanga collaboration teased in campaign 84. Brain Fodder section introduces the idea that Baseworks principles inform how the team approached learning to code for their own tooling — a throughline that later surfaces in the WordCamp Canada 2024 piece (campaign 92).