This program will discuss ways in which soundscapes and listening can
be used in working with students. Robert Mann has been developing
materials for
classroom use for almost a decade now and his material has been used
with first graders all the way up to college. He has written two
curriculum guides that are in use throughout the United States and is
the co-editor with Ulrike Tietze of "Sound Adventures: Listening and
World Languages", a project of the Goethe Institut.
Biography ROBERT MANN
Robert Mann is a composer, percussionist and educator based in Stone
Ridge, NY. He has composed music for dance, film and small ensembles. In a
playing career that spans over 25 years, he has performed with Don Cherry,
David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir, Bhaghavan Das and Ana Ruiz among
others. He has played in a variety of world music groups including the Gasha
Band (Ethiopia), Bantu (Congo), Atras del Cosmos (Mexico), and Chakra City.
He is presently director of POOK (Percussion Orchestra of Kingston) a
fourteen member drum ensemble, plays with the performance poetry group
Bardo Motel and is the drummer for the trance dance band OMU, whose new
CD will be released this fall.
Robert
currently serves as Executive Director of the Center for Creative
Education,
a non-profit arts education organization and Artistic Director of the
Stone
Ridge Center for the Arts in the Hudson Valley of New York.
