At the workshop organized by the ImPulzus Creative Music Lab, led by Dóra Orosz, participants were introduced to warm-up exercises focusing on our own inner rhythm. Through the exercises, the focus was on getting to know our body, and it highlighted the musicality rooted in its own rhythm. The workshop with Dóra was an extremely good opportunity to try out the warm-up exercises included in the project. At the end of the program, there were exercises that developed a sense of rhythm and playing together, enriched with rhythm instruments.

In the summer of 2021, after many month of shutdown due to the epidemic, we participated in a music and folk music camp, in which, in addition to singing exercises, Hungarian folk music and folk dance played a major role. The leaders of the folk dance class were Csilla Böde-Harkai and István Böde. The young people greatly enjoyed the relaxed social program including our ImMusic exercises in this field.

In June 2021, with continued to record the testing of the music exercises developed during the project. We made a video recording of the playful tasks and the moments of the testing, we hope to be able to make a few recordings public in along with the task descriptions. The session was led by Csaba Tőri, and the participants were university students open to amateur music making, working with young people.

We held an interactive singing program with ImPulzus on the second day of the first Őrség Contemporary Music Days, which was fortunately realized at the last minute after the closures due to the epidemic. The event, held in one of the most beautiful regions of Hungary, in a beautiful landscape, provided an extremely good opportunity to test those exercises in a completely unfamiliar environment, which even make it possible to learn contemporary pieces of music.

The pandemic affected people in many ways. At ImPulzus, we thought a lot about how to ease the confinement and move the sessions that gave the most to those around us to the online space. The most difficult thing was that we could solve the singing at the same time. Unfortunately, we can’t do miracles either, and we can’t fight the signal strength, but by switching the microphone on and off, we can moderate it a lot in order to offer an interesting and enjoyable program. The possibility of this is also given to youth workers, so the realization of music programs can be solved even in the online space. Most of the tasks we prepare can also be adapted online with a little creativity, and we provide ideas for this when developing them.