Social & Research.
Over the years, I've accumulated extensive experience conducting informal sessions, including a notable achievement in creating an album with a group of Roma teenage girls from a settlement. Drawing inspiration from the Ubiktúra community songwriting sessions, I developed a methodology and produced a PDF publication for musicians interested in adopting a similar approach. Additionally, I've run several digital composition sessions called vocal games, where we explore digital sounds, turning everyday human voices and sounds into music.
Puszafalat (2021-2022) - Singing Recipe Book
Zea Gyarmati, Anna Makay: research, interviews, concept
Puszafalat contains stories, recipes and songs from the Hegyköz and the Bodrogköz region. The sources of the collection are the elders of small towns and even smaller villages, the kindly inhabitants with open hearts and mouths. The book is neither a recipe book nor a songbook, but a way of keeping alive the memories of the people of a region.
Puszafalat = story + recipe + song
https://puszafalat.eu/
AZVLM (2019- )
is a creative collative formed by 4 Hungarian woman. The collective (formed in 2018), is experimenter, border tensioner and also we varied art projects with each other. We became known for our parties involving projects. Our specialty is there programs embedded in concepts that create opportunity joint presentation of different projects, collaborations and current topics to bypass.
Szép kincsem, boldog a szerelem (AZVLM, Bagázs org.)
The AZVLM team started visiting Dány, a roma ghetto, site of the Bagázs Association 2020 fall to create a music album with the participation of the children living in the Roma settlement within the framework of the Digital Arts in Education project. The basic concept was to conduct a series of educational sessions based on informal learning on digital music production, from which the ‘Pacekos Banda’ band was born. ‘Szép kincsem, boldog a szerelem’, born from the collaboration of Roma teenage girls and professional musicians.
vocals: Antonia Vai, Anna Makay, Krisztina Farkas, Máté Palágyi, Dan
guitar: Oliver Lee
violin: Máté Palágyi
trickster: Zahár Fanni
bass guitar: Gábor Fehér
electronics: Anna Makay, Dávid Konsinczky
drums: Ágoston Szabó Sipos
https://pacekosbanda.bandcamp.com/album/sz-p-kincsem-boldog-a-szerelem
Vocal games
The basis of our digital music-making sessions is experimenting with non-digital everyday sounds and rhythms, like singing, humming, cooing, whistling, clapping, and imitating sounds (animals, objects…etc). Just playing. Then the computer and the microphone appear and it turns out that all the fun will become music.
UbikTúra (2018- )
Our goal is to be the meeting point of Hegyköz and Budapest culture, and to dispel the misconception that only folk dancers can have fun in the dance hall.
We organize camps for adult with musical and art workshops, hikes in Zemplén, educational programs, and folk dance houses at night. Every year we create a song together with musicians and the campers.