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Think in sounds!

2009
An art passionate who cultivates his way of listening to and understanding music, an art passionate thirsty of knowledge, an audience who can perceive music at a high level of generalization, a listener aware that authentic art is inconceivable without an elevation of thought, a listener with a cultural sensitivity- this is an ideal to aspire to and the educational effort of our society. Music is a way of living.We should preserve our national values, traditional music, and last but not least show interest in true music round the world and its evolution.Comercial music is a way to narrow the minds of nowadays teenagers and that's why we want to show the others that we can alos find beauty in old music.Developing your culture and general knowledge from an early age, will help you find your own way through society more easily. • Essential question or problem that this project addresses Is nowadays generation interested in valuable and old music? Do they manage to transmit forward their customs and traditional music? Are music teachers concerned to raise up the teenagers preferences in listening to real music ,not only to comercial one? Can we think of some ways to improve the culture among teenagers? • Curriculum standards Students will understand music and sounds in relation to culture and history, trying to describe, analyze and put in the right order the conclusions. They will show the link between music and other arts by personal reviews and observations. They will try to find musicality in everyday life and illustrate that thinking in sounds can contribute to the intellect development. Narratives will include introduction, supporting details in the body, and conclusions.Language will be used in natural and the narratives will explore experiences, events the members saw, felt or took part in. They will write responses, arguments, advices and analysis in their own words, marking the most significant ideas and aspects of the topic. • Expected outcomes Creating an awareness about the value of music and stopping the decay of teenagers culture. The project will develop skills of recognizing each style of musicians and bands. The student-members will be required to organize the information on the topic by interpreting the findings from investigations, surveys and interviews.Powerpoint presentations,videos ,slide shows will be prepared and also all images will be original. The team will consider their own observations,ideas and experiences during researchings before putting in the right order the conclusions. They will try to give an example to others through their own experiences stories.They will try to engender intrest in music among children of their age. • Required resources The team is suggested to use all kinds of resources such as books, stories, events they took part in, magazines or internet. The team will use technology/skill tools like scanner, digital camera,video camera,designing in Photoshop, Photoscape and use the ThinkQuest tools to upload their work. • How will this project help the class, school, community or world? The project will attempt to raise a consciousness about music value all over the world .Music defines human character.Through this project, we are trying to straighten some wrong customs, and to develop fruitful vision over life by thinking in sounds.

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Team

LeandroColégio Objetivo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

AndreeaAvram Iancu High School, Cluj, Romania

IoanaAvram Iancu High School, Cluj, Romania

BogdanAvram Iancu High School, Cluj, Romania

AndyAvram Iancu High School, Cluj, Romania

Age Range

19 & under

Coaches

de Cerqueira Nunes LucianaColégio Objetivo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Dana Liana VaidaAvram Iancu High School, Cluj, Romania

Category

Arts & Entertainment > Music

Audience

All ages

Language

English

Team Collaboration

The team "Think in sounds!" started building the project in February.The entire narrative is inspired from the members' experience.They devided the topics as it followes:Ioana, Andy ,Andreea writing the essays, taking and editing photos and Bogdan the technical field - taking and editing videos and Leandro wrote about music in Brazil.Each member was an important pillar of the team.One took over the other, suplementing the other when some member went down.Each member had diffrent abilities:taking photos, editing them, translating, searching for information.The team utilized everyone's talent to its full.The result can be seen in this beautiful narrative project.The team was busy for months collecting data, opinions and information.Everyone had some individual qualities that helped the narrative grow.

Firstly, we should to mention that Andreea took part in a national contest, consequently she couldn't post so much as the others.The difficulties they encountered consist of breaking up the team, Andreea did not have the neccesary time to give attention to the project.That's why she wanted to give up.However, we found a way to continue together by helping her to create essays and sharing with her things from our visits.

At the begginig of March, Leandro joined our team.Having technical problemes with his internet, we couldn't keep in touch.He only managed to send as a few information on mail.

Our action steps:

We created the plan of our project, with the main topics we wanted to reffer to.

We divided them among us:Ioana-Classical music,taking photos

Andy-Our soul bands,taking photos

Andreea-Music therapy,editing photos

Bogdan-Making videos,the tehnical field of music

All the rest was made as a team work.

To achieve the best results, we went to "Philarmonic State of Transylvania", taking part to their concerts and also talking with the members of the orchestra.We took an interview to Mr.Manciu Gabi, who became 'our personal music teacher'.

At school, we took an interview to our music teacher Ms.Angela David, recorded ourselves singing some famous songs, and taking part in concerts during the celebration of our High School fundation.We made surveys among our schoolmates,trying to find out what the tendecy of nowadays music is.

Taking to consideration our music teacher advices, we joined a 'Music camp' and learned how to play a musical instrument.

To find out how music is made, we made a visit to a studio where a man explained to us all about technical field of music.

Team Diversity

Building and writing this project was a completly adventure.It was as if we had started a long journey in which everyone got hard luggage in their backs.The target is hold in ThinkQuest's hand, and we approach with small but confident steps to the final.The travellers are from Romania and Brazil and the distance between the two countries influenced their journey.They couldn't communicate so well because of the internet problems.However, when there is no communication, music comes to help you. They manage to exchange songs and realized the beauty of the other country and its musical culture.A few information from Brazil music and dances helped Romania form an image of the traditional music there and create a short narrative.

The team had three girls and two boys, along with the lead coach, Ms. Dana Vaida and Assistant Coach Prof.Luciana.The team was diverse in the following aspects:

1. Geographical Diversity- The members were from two different countries- Romania and Brazil.This diversity helped us study teenagers preferences in music in different geographical areas.

2.Technological Knowledge: The team members were from different educational background. Their knowledge of technology was different.Leandro was a beginner in using ThinkQuest so we posted the information he gave us.

3.Cultural Diversity: Two countries are sufficient to prove the cultural diversity of the team. Some cultures are sensitive towards music and some suppress it. Some understand music as an individual; some do not identify it at all.

4. Time Zones: Two time zones taught the team to adapt.The members adapted themselves to others’ needs. This difference in time zones helped the students understand better some geographical factors.

5. Diversity of Sources: The team used many different sources and resources to make this NarrativeProject. Books, Internet, magazines, talks with people in different spheres of life, real life situations and experiences, personal experience, surveys, interviews helped the team to build this narrative.

6. Gender Diversity: The team had both- boys and girls. This helped to understand the emotional needs and points of view of both and enriched the project.

7. Language Diversity: The members had different mother language. Nobody had English as his/her maternal language so this barrier was overcome by cross-cultural understanding.

Being a team formed of two countries, the diversity existed.Despite poor comunication, this helped us work and collaborate, making us walk more easily the long distance.