Holiday Workshops
Soundwalk © zVg
HardwareSoftware © zVg
HardwareSoftware © zVg
HardwareSoftware © zVg
Soundwalk © zVg
Workshop © Mara Laknai
Workshop © Mara Laknai
«Bild & Ton»
Audiovisual workshops for children and teenagers
Develop creativity, experiment and realise your own audiovisual projects – the holiday workshops of the Image & Sound department offer children and young people a unique opportunity to explore the connection between sound and image in a playful way.
As a cooperation between the Basel Music School, the Basel Music Academy and the Gare du Nord, two workshops have been offered every year since 2012, creating space for artistic and technical development. The content is tailored to the interests of the participants and encourages unconventional ideas. This results in interactive computer games, fascinating shadow theatre, singing cuddly toys and bicycles that make music.
The children and young people develop their own works in courses that usually last a week - from the initial idea to the final realisation. In the process, they learn practical and artistic skills in programming, sound design, sculpture making, sewing, soldering and many other areas.
Current Holiday Workshops
We will publish the workshops for the 26/27 season here shortly.
Past Vacation Workshops
© K’Werk Bildschule bis 16, SfG Basel
Flyer Workshop «Soundwalk»
Flyer Workshop «Hardware - Software
Workshop: Spooky Beats, Dancing Storms
What does a beat made of rain, lightning, and thunder sound like? And how do you dance to a hailstorm, a blizzard, or a summer shower? The workshop participants explored these questions. They learned to create rhythms on the computer and developed corresponding dance movements with their bodies. Drawing inspiration from the four seasons, they created dance choreographies set to their own sound loops. Inspired by dazzling rays of sunlight, whistling autumn storms, and snow-covered landscapes, they transformed groovy beats into captivating movements. To wrap things up on Friday, August 7, 2026, they presented their music and choreography at the Gare du Nord in front of family and friends.
Workshop: Camera rolling! Sound on!
Mysterious creatures roam the park, Leonie and Silia travel into the future, shoes are stolen from the apartment block and rumours spread in the school class. Together we produce a mini-series. We invent a story with several episodes and bring it to life with images and sound. What should we pay attention to when filming? How do we make sounds and compose film music? And why are films actually edited? We write our own mini-series and film it, make music and record sounds. Then we edit the film footage on the computer. Bring your ideas and come along on this journey! At the end of the workshop on Friday, 20 February 2026, we will present the mini-series and invite your family and friends to the Gare du Nord, Schwarzwaldallee 200, 4058 Basel.
Workshop: Soundwalk
Would you like to tell an exciting story with sound and noises? In this workshop, you will learn how to capture noises and sounds with a microphone and use them to create funny or scary audio stories. You'll put everything together on the computer to create a soundtrack. Finally, on Friday, 8 August, at 2 p.m., the Soundwalk will take place at gare du Nord, where visitors can walk through the rooms with your soundtrack on their ears and listen to your exciting stories and sounds.
Workshop: Hardware - Software
Music, video, beats, pixels: how does a sound know what it should sound like? What are pixels and how do they know what colour they are? How does a drawing become music? And how is an image created from a sound? We will create images and sounds on the computer and transform them into symbols, colours and patterns. You will learn how to make your drawings sound. On Saturday, 26 April 2025 at 2 p.m., we will present a unique concert – a show with movement, light and music – and invite your family and friends to join us at Gare du Nord, Schwarzwaldallee 200, 4058 Basel.
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Writing music without sheet music?
Of course! Instead of using sheet music and classical scores, you invent your own symbols! You will learn how symbols become sounds and sounds become symbols. We will use computers and iPads to create rhythms, sounds, shapes and colours. Every day, we will switch roles: first, we will draw pictures that become music, then we will compose music that becomes pictures. We will recognise patterns that exist in both pictures and music and produce new ones.
