Keith Terry Body Music Workshop Notes
Keith Terry developed the Body Music workshop material and instruction provided. The content and methods are proprietary to Keith. While you are welcome to teach Body Music to others using his methods and choreography, please credit Keith Terry; however, you may not publish it as your own, or use his image or video material without his further express permission.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS OFTEN USED IN KEITH TERRY’S WORKSHOP:
Additive Rhythm - compound rhythms created by combining units of ones, twos, threes and fours.
Body Music – that music created by the body via clapping, slapping, snapping, stepping and vocalizing
Composite Rhythm – the “new” rhythm created as the result of mixing rhythms or pulses
Crosspulse – two or more time signatures or meters playing simultaneously while maintaining their own pulse
Divisive Rhythm – where does the rhythm fall on and around the downbeat
Double-Time – Twice as fast
Half-Time – Half as slow
Konnakol – Mnemonic syllables from South Indian music
Phasing – One rhythm with two or more starting points, like a round or canon
Polymeters – multiple meters, two or more time signatures or meters playing simultaneously, while sharing a pulse
Polyrhythms – two or more rhythms playing simultaneously
Pulse – consistent beat, each sound having equal duration, or equal value
Rhythm – patterns created by a mix of long and short sounds
Solkattu -- Compositions created using Konnakol syllables
Syncopation -- That part of the rhythm on the upbeat, as opposed to the downbeat
If you want to go deeper -- develop skills, focus, timing and rhythmic concepts -- check out Keith’s instructional DVDs, videos, articles, and his
Rhythm of Math book - hard copies and downloads. There is also a lot of Keith's music — CDs and downloads, at the Crosspulse website store: https://crosspulse.com/shop/
Recently Launched: Body Music Mini-Lessons
Work with Keith Terry on short Body Music activities. Mini-Lessons include Video and Notation. This first launch contains lessons that already exist on Keith's four Body Music Videos, available here a la carte. While all lessons are suitable for a General audience of anyone interested in the art form, we will be adding material directed specifically to Teachers who want to learn how to lead Body Music activities, and for Students to directly follow, as a contained activity. You can sort Mini-Lessons by level, key words, and intended audience. More added each month.
Explore and have fun!
More Body Music Resources:
Curated Body Music Videos Playlist:
This is a curated playlist of Body Music videos from around the world from the International Body Music Festival (IBMF) family of artists, and beyond. There are 81 vids (performance, traditional and contemporary, educational, archival), in no particular order: https://bit.ly/32SdUdX
New videos will continue to be added.
IBMF Online Marathon 2020
On June 13, the IBMF produced a 12-Hour Online Body Music Marathon, featuring live-streamed artists from around the planet, engaging with an audience of 180,000 viewers/listeners, in the midst of a growing pandemic.
The 2020 International Body Music Festival 12-Hour Online Body Music Marathon is archived on Facebook. To watch, go here:
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalBodyMusicFestival/videos/259779825337291