Karaka Academy

Date & Time: Every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays from 5pm

Location: Studio Sociaal, 16/48 Lysaght St, Coolum Beach QLD

Music improvisation with signs uses an Argentinian musical language to create compositions in real time. The “conductor" manipulates over a hundred different kinds of hand signs, and giving instructions, enabling improvisation by multiple players joined by him on stage. The only thing that is rehearsed is the arduous training in improvisation resources and communication skills using this sign language. During the concerts, musicians, instruments, conductor and audience are merged spontaneously and play being-free together to produce powerful and danceable music

​Mondays: Introductory course focused on learning the basics of hand-signal language, percussion techniques, and instrument fundamentals. Perfect for beginners.

Tuesdays: Intermediate course (prerequisite: Monday course). Dive deeper into percussion, exploring constructive dynamics and practicing binary and ternary rhythms from around the world.

Wednesdays: Advanced group (requires passing a short online or in-person assessment). Topics include polyrhythms, irregular time signatures, and advanced concepts like amalgamation and pentary subdivisions.