Tasten Erkennen Wahrnehmen

Karola Baumann et al., Tasten Erkennen Wahrnehmen [touch perceive recognize], Ravensburg 1979

new games

Andrew Fluegelman / Shoshana Tembeck, new games, die neuen spiele, Ahorn Verlag, Pittenhart-Oberbrunn 1979 (original: The New Games Book, Headlands Press, San Francisco 1976)

Previously featured here from the same publishing house: Maskenspiel part I and part II.

Le soleil est arrivé

"The sun has arrived / the birds are having fun [...] / the kids play outside / the dads work on their construction sites, whistling / the sun came back, summer is here"

I just spent two wonderfully sunny summer weeks in the Swiss mountains and can't think of a better way to celebrate this and summer in general (before autumn comes) than by playing you this song by the 9-year old Gérard who luckily went to Freinet school in 1971. He sings and plays metallophone on his song, accompanied by Marc and Roger, same age, on percussion and xylophone. An incredible record of kids avantgarde, played on Orff instruments, rubber bands and knives-on-the-edge-of-desks. Definitely one of my finds of the year. More of this would probably really have led to socialism (of the good sort).