A musical-visual happening, at the International Interdisciplinary Conference «Lived Experience, Metaphor and Multimodality: Implications, In communication, Education, Learning and Knowledge»., Department of Preschool Education, University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, October 10-12. Fragments of multimodal experiences of the city: creativity, transformation and Reframing.

The approach to this happening is based on the need to give more weight to the experiential experimenting with elements of the city and transform them into raw materials. The project is positioned within a wider reflection on the importance of primary experiences in music education as well as on on the issue of the of the urban soundscape representation.

Therefore, based on the experiences and reflections from different fields of interests (music education - architecture education) an attempt was made to create a framework of image – sound association through the collective creation of a multi-modal performance, which reframes both visual and audio stimuli of the urban cityscape.

Through the walkthrough and documentation of the city, and the subsequent creative work in the laboratory, ανattempt was made to create a dialogue between two levels of primary lived experience: experiencing the sites and the sounds of the city, and the "metaphor" (with the double meaning of the word) this experience into a multi-modal piece which uses and transforms sounds and images. Ways of working like this, try to reposition, in the center of learning, what was once obvious, that the human experience that produces learning is fundamentally multimodal.

Participants entered an intensive process of creating primary experiences which focus on processing different semiotic resources.

In the “traces”, it was attempted to address the musical ideas as "thoughts", which derived from seemingly things unconnected to music. The way in which the personal record of aspects of the experience of the city can be "translated" into music, led us to recognize the role of the experience in the formation of the concept of landscape.

In the “traces”, it is proposed to experience the city as a place that is open to different readings, depending not on how we collect snapshots, but how we choose to process them.

Organization of the Working Group and the happening «Traces – of a city, Traces – of people, Feelings, Sounds»: Panayiotis Kanellopoulos, Giorgos Papakonstantinou