Holiday Workshops

«Bild & Ton»

Audiovisual workshops for children and teenager

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.

Final presentations

26.04.25

Hardware – Software

At the end of the workshop, the participants present a unique concert – a show with movement, light and music!

08.08.25

Soundwalk

At the end of the workshop, the Soundwalk will take place in the Gare du Nord, where visitors can walk through the rooms with your soundtrack on their ears and listen to the 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.

This workshop is taking place in cooperation with K’Werk Bildschule bis 16, Schule für Gestaltung Basel and Musikschule Basel.

Workshop dates

Tue 22 – Fri 25 April 2025 from 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
And Sat 26 April 2025 from 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (2nd week of spring holidays)

Age group

10-14 years old

Location

K'Werk Bildschule bis 16
Schule für Gestaltung Basel
Vogelsangstrasse 15
4058 Basel

Direction

Simon Krebs, Matthieu Crimersmois

Bring along

Picnic for lunch

Presentation

Sat 26 April 2025, 2:00 pm at Gare du Nord

Costs

CHF 260.-

Info & Registration

kwerk.ch
musikschule-basel.ch
kwerk@bs.ch
+41 61 695 66 10

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.

This workshop is organised in cooperation with K’Werk Bildschule bis 16, Schule für Gestaltung Basel and Musikschule Basel.

Workshop dates

Mon 4th - Fri 8th of August 2025; 10:00-16:00

Age group

11-16 years old

Location

K'Werk Bildschule bis 16
Schule für Gestaltung Basel
Vogelsangstrasse 15
4058 Basel

Direction

Anna Ida Fierz & Nikolas Neecke

Bring along

Picnic for lunch

Presentation

Fri August 8 2025, 2:00 pm at Gare du Nord

Costs

CHF 260.-

Registration

kwerk.ch/soundwalk

Info and Contact

musikschule-basel.ch
kwerk@bs.ch
+41 61 695 66 10

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