Sonorous Objects for Therapy and Music Education
From
natural resources and scrap metals to sophisticated elaboration of
sonorous vehicles.
ROBERTO LUIS CASTRO
Among
many brazilian instrument makers, Roberto Luis Castro stands out for
being an artist who looks for balance between freedom of exploring
and creation whitout any obligations excepts for his
own intuition
and, at the same time, the possibility of fill the gap on on specific
sonorous instrument industry, attending the
notorious lack of school and music therapy nucleus.
Graduated
in Composition, Regency and Music Education at Federal University of Bahia,
Brazil.
Walter Smetak - among other music masters (Ernst Widmer, Lindembergue
Cardoso, Jamary and Alda Oliveira, Carmen Mettig) -, was his teacher at
music school that has as main mentor the conductor Hans-Joachim Koellreutter,
from Freiburg, Germany.
Since 1979, Roberto has been developing a workmanship activity as educative
method in music therapy and music education, teaching children how to
use natural resources or even garbage to produce and play simple musical
instruments.
His achievement of research and musical instruments building consists
in a significant contribuition to the art, education and therapy development
context.
Salvador, Bahia - Brasil.