Soundscapes / Marta Cwikla

Global Music Connection Method

I created Global Music Connection Method - a safe place where the student feels free to express, where we discover together his/her personal predispositions how to learn music, and where he/she is choosing what we will play. My role as a Teacher is to be a Bridge, to recognize the Personality and Design the individual Method. It is a wide spectrum of possibilities - from empathic, emotional, imaginary world to scientific, micro perceptive aural training; from dancing and copying/pasting dance into the instrument, or producing animal sounds together that imitate Nature and finding them in the instrument, to the mathematical analysis of music architecture - for nerdy brains... All ways are correct- as long as they serve the purpose and create love to music... and motivation. GMC Method is based on my experience from classical music educational systems based on strict discipline, a fixed programme, stressful exams, and forcing you to play music that often you don't like...versus...folklore of Africa, Latin America and the Far East, where music is shared, connected with joy, dancing, and spirituality, and transmitted by copying, playing and singing together... fear versus joy critics versus encouragement stiffness versus movement I believe Music and Dance are healing arts and we all should be encouraged to play, sing and dance - no matter what age we are, what background we have and where we were born. It is a medicine that gives balance to the Body and Spirit, and Self-Esteem in a Social Life.