The World Needs Us Right Now - Guitar Craft & Guitar Circle

Can music change our world?
If so, how?
What do we have to do to welcome music into our lives?

If Music is to visit, to enter in, listening is as necessary as playing and performing.
So, the role of the audience is as necessary as that of the musician.

We are inviting interested audients to learn the techniques and approaches available to Crafty Guitarists.

For those attending as guitarists, work will be on acoustic guitars in the New Standard Tuning – CGDAEG. Guitar meetings / workshops will be in groups of all sizes, including individual meetings with the Guitar Buddies.

This course will include classes in Orchestral Maneuvers, Música En Movimiento, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, T’ai Chi, The Process Of Performance, and Doing Nothing – As Much As You Can!

This Introduction To The Guitar Circle welcomes both guitarists and audients new to the work of the Guitar Circle & Guitar Craft, at any level of experience from absolute beginner to professional.

The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists welcomes guitarists and audients that have attended at least one Guitar Craft, Guitar Circle, or Música En Movimiento course.

Robert Fripp & The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists will perform publicly on Saturday 20th, April 2024, at “Nuestra Señora del Tránsito” Church (next to the course’s facility).

Robert Fripp
Saturday 19^th. November, 2022;
Middle England.

Update (August 29th, 2023): the course is fully subscribed and the waiting list so long that we are no longer accepting applications for this course.

Update (March 27th, 2023): the course is currently fully subscribed, although some attendees need to be fully confirmed. We have opened a waiting list should places become available.

Anyone who wishes to attend, and so be added to the waiting list, please send an email to registrar@guitarcraft.com, in English, including full name, telephone contact, country of residence, and responses to the following questions:

Who are you?, Why do you wish to attend?, and What is your Aim?

You’ll receive a response, up to a week after we have received your application, from Luciano Pietrafesa or Mariana Scaravilli.

Arrivals The OCG & preparation team: Saturday 13th through Sunday 14th

Arrivals Intro To GC: Monday 15th (up until 18:00/6pm the latest)

Departures: Sunday 21st (morning through noon)

The course organisers hold the aims of inclusiveness and equity.

Different tuition fees apply depending on the country of residence in the hope that to those who wish to attend are able to.

We are also open to attend to individual needs where necessary, regardless of the established tuition fees for each region.

Latin America: USD 600
Argentina: USD 400
Rest of the world: USD 1200

(All tuition fees include self-catered meals by The OCG and modest accommodation)

Vision

The Team after the course completed. Photo: Darren Henderson – Pablo Mandel

A few words from Pablo Mandel:

Music comes first —this was the premise I kept in mind while working on registering with a camera what was going on during the OCG 2024..

Whenever I sensed that it was better to refrain from using the camera, so I did, to support what was going on in the moment. I also kept doing my work as part of the kitchen team, and as player, so there were many situations that shall remain in people’s inner memory.

My photographic equipment consisted of a fixed lens (no zoom), which required me to get closer to the subject rather than making the picture from afar. I prefer this way of shooting as it limits some possibilities, and opens others. It forces me to use my legs, I had to physically become part of the event to make the photograph.

I have added a visual essay, in two PDF formats, as I wished to explore the nature of the relationship between different photographs, visual groupings, and themes. Editorial photography provides a digested way to present an event in visual form.

I wish to thank Patrick Courtney and Darren Henderson for lending me their equipment, which included a zoom and a ultra-wide angle lenses that allowed some photographs to be made from the distance, and the large group photo.

Sincerely, and my gratitude and thanks to you all for the opportunity to do this work,

Pablo

Download A Visual Essay by Pablo Mandel: single page | double page

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