LoMus Lab 1 - Cosenza

Data generated during the first iteration of the workshop series LoMus Lab which Dr Christian Ferlaino led in Cosenza in April-May 2024 with the participation of Prof Raymond MacDonald.

LoMus Lab is a workshop for people with every musical experience, including none. It is an inclusive music-making platform that values participation, creativity and interaction over technical skills. The participants use traditional Calabrian sounding objects to engage in musical activities. We explore those sounds in new and fun ways and make music using improvisation, interaction strategies, games and verbal and graphic scores. The workshop series aims at developing a method for increasing access to musical participation for people who would be otherwise excluded from making music. It challenges established concepts and practices around music and musicality and promotes social innovation by initiating new ways of relating with the others and the environment through sound. Unlinking music-production abilities from specialised instrumental training enables everybody to make music without requiring mastery of an instrument, or specific musical idioms and techniques, and lead to the emergence of new types of musicality.

The files contained in this dataset are part of the EU Funded research LoMus - Local Sound for a New Musicality: Enhancing Musical Participation Through a Local Sonic Practice. The data have been purged of unnecessary personal information and any information that goes beyond the scope of the research.The data are protected under the Creative Common Attribution 4.0 International licence.