the name is an essential marker of
identity
it’s true for the proper names I am
quite happy with mine I thank my
parents
gilles refers to the shield of athena which
used to break through to defeat the infamous
gorgon jellyfish the name of the project of which I
you speak and demos what is at the
times an acronym education device
musical and orchestral vocation
social
a reference to Greek antiquity
and of course to democracy the project
demos gives the opportunity to children
who live in popular neighborhoods
to collectively discover music
classical
we understand right away that it’s happening
something unusual
the classic and popular words serving
usually to form categories
distinct classical art opposes art
popular and it’s particularly
true when it comes to music and
yet these are the children who
live in popular neighborhoods
popular is one of the names we use
it is surely the most neutral
we use others that are a lot
more intellectually mastered as
concentrating social difficulties or
political class of the city and we
sometimes uses that they are actually
stigmatizing as in trouble
difficult sensitive
yet these young people are playing
haydn mozart of the veto with them for
that he uses violin flutes
violence they or both
pianos have no piano and
are defeated who takes care of this project
Well, it’s the Philharmonic of Paris
when we come to speak who is one
emblems of prestige and
musical excellence in our country
and why what is the meaning of this
action
when we refer to
Greek antiquity
you have to be able to answer the
question otherwise socrates risk in his
2 out of 9 us quai so I’m going to talk to you
two-way and I’m going to try to
start answering the question in
telling you a story the story
of a young boy he is not so young
today that’s called his career
zakaria is one of those children that
it is called agitating or difficult
I want to tell you that in the
neighborhoods of which he is
question
the restless and difficult children are not
not that many and that we can
even often distinguish at home
ability to get excited
listening to the princesses’ round of
stravinsky far superior to
reactions that children can have
living in neighborhoods let’s say
classic and who are often taking
often jaded
because they often take a look
jaded but very difficult carriet
zakaria missed attention he disturbed
the concentration of his comrades and he
had sudden gestures that have
led in the three years that he has
participated in the project he entered at
the age of 10 he stayed up
13 years old and what was planned and well
at kariat managed to break two
cellos during this project one of the
musicians who became a friend
today one of his musicians 10th
and what is he doing here
gilles is taking it out of the project either
possible he does not lack attention he
is not interested in either the others or
the music is obvious that it is not necessary
not that he remains the director of the center
social in which zakaria been
enrolled told me exactly the
opposite
he became a friend too today
and he told me gilles he must
rest it’s the first time I
see zakaria follow an activity of
assiduous way
he does not miss any session he is
always on time there is something
thing then I realized that
it would have been a failure of the project a
absolute defeat was so zakaria
left so he stayed and to help him
to accompany him we appealed
the services of a music therapist
Italian who lives in Paris and who
brilliantly helped her to progress to
change of behavior has gained in
attention and and yes it was starting to
walk but that’s a new hurdle a
television show on a big
national channel at 52 minutes
what luck and good during these
fifty two minutes
zakaria was the negative figure of the
project that mark the limits of our
inclusion abilities through music
fourteen negative thinking count
share recorded by us on
all of his appearances in the
documentary is the opposite another
boy who was the subject of
all positive comments black handsome
wise playing the trumpet and
obviously to whom we compare a black
who plays trumpet and bahamas
davis when they have no trumpet they
have sense of rhythm it seems so I
let you imagine the head of zakaria
when he saw the movie because he
seen the movie of course but by
luck all ended well as
the beautiful stories since the
educational community that were
around him made sure that he
go to the end of the project is bound
east so positively so
at the end of the project said
in a documentary we have
realized ourselves he said
I would have done something good in
my life I would have played cello
he did not do that well in his
life zakaria today 16 years old and lamy
social blood director whom I have you
spoken clearly told me that he was
perfectly integrated into the life of the
neighborhood and that he was involved in the
associative life especially via the center
social in question a single dropouts
you miss it and all the democracy is
disturbed that’s why it was not necessary
not exclude a cart I’m going
continue to answer this question
meaning in the project demos is talking to you
by telling you a bit about my life
speaking of my personal journey am
entered very quickly in a course of
pedagogue of music but I do not
did not know clearly what animated me
I did not know exactly why I
did that and I think the moment of
revelation end of the month I am
remember like that on this issue of
meaning came from a course
at the university paris xiii where the
composer ahmed essyad did us
hear a rough piece that is the
Catalan Oriental Lute
I was listening to this piece I understood
not everything I was myself a guitarist
I played with many jazz guitar
at the time and on hearing it I am
said it looks like something
I master it looks like the
language that I use to play the
music but that’s not exactly the
same thing
did not understand
reinforced the feeling of emotion that
I had listening to the piece and this
day there I think it’s clearly
that day that I wrote in my
head
a principle that guided I believe any
my career then human beings
are essentially similar but they
the ability to vary infinitely on
the same fundamentals
and to illustrate his I had to
to do very quickly without microphone I
brought a musical instrument I’m going
to look for them right behind who is
an instrument that has gone down in history
and you will understand that you are going
hear me tell them
demonstration are just gestures
for that I do not really play but
for you to understand the principle there is
a very strong link between language
emotion and transferability
in what’s in the human being and
this gesture date from between 10 and 20 thousand
years old I show you
he arises by mira
[Music]
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I became convinced that
artistic education is absolutely
essential to the development of
individuals but it’s not only that
but I also believe that she is
absolutely essential to favor
an education in otherness
respect for otherness
it’s been 35 years since I
revolves around this idea and at
early I was great because
I thought I found something
great and actually it’s a trick
great but I realized
that I was far from the only one
have watched the things of this
way
I studied, for example, all
the humanist thinkers who put this
question of artistic education at
heart of steel formation of a young
citizen so this is the case of thinkers
lights of course
thinkers like tagore who is a big
Indian figure from the beginning of the twentieth
century a little overshadowed by gandhi and
he was a philosopher a writer
poet composer he is the author of
the Bengal hymn the Indian anthem and he
was also dancer here and we
find the same educational principles
it’s also in the writings of John
duty and his successors who have
deeply marked the system
American educational is today
it’s humanist current
represents the path of resistance
to the obscurantist and alarmist sirens
contemporary so I’m referring to these
currents of thought is for me the
demos project aims to protect
humanity yes I go downright
when I pronounced this sentence in front of
monique colleagues go a little hard
purpose of protecting humanity by
helping to reduce the number of
those who think that a human being can
to be inferior and who can go
until you want to eliminate it from the
surface of the planet but on the contrary
to increase the number of those who are
able to detect the like in
another human being and who make
that something that inhabit them in
permanence in all their social life
that’s why it’s important in
educational projects only like the one that
I I lead that children can
realize
even though the gold repertoire
privileged and classical music that
how much man and musicians so
we introduce in their program
references to the music of india
where or to the music of the Arab world
not for eclecticism but for this
idea realize how much
the man is a musician and how much
we are human beings it is
really what lives in us
permanence but the fact that it is
classical music
inside two project pros
demos is also something
fundamental because to come back to
zakaria to children and families of
these popular neighborhoods very often
when they approach this music
they say they are not for us
is it not for us can very
well turn into the us against
them that thwarted all hopes
that we have here with all these
projects that showcase the living
together
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