“The Moving Orchestra’s Musical Lab” is series of free workshops and a culminating performance on experimental collective improvisation for children organized and taught by The Moving Orchestra co-founders, Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim and Joey Chang. 

Experimental music is usually taught as something that lies at the end of a traditional music training path, but we find that wrong and want to encourage more kids to recognize they can play around with music and sound as art from the get go. Both of us are dedicated teachers, but this is the first time we are putting our pedagogy under the umbrella of The Moving Orchestra by sharing what we’ve learned as collective improvisers. You can learn more about us here. 

Each session will present some tools and specific Black, POC, and women artists that have had great influence upon our own work. The workshops will have a spirit of no wrong answers, no gatekeeping, just sharing, in the style of “here is some stuff we know; now do what you want with it”. 

Students have little-to-no need for score-reading ability, and no improvisation experience required. Moderate musical proficiency (ideally at least two years of music lessons) is preferred, but not a requirement.

More info at: https://www.themovingorchestra.com/lab