Kassel, Germany.<\/em> Christoph Quadflieg, curative educator, singing teacher, choirmaster, and singer, ran Sing’in at Kassel Central Station this summer, a store where people can experience their musicality. In this interview, he talks about the initiative.<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n What is your intention at Sing’in?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I would like to create a place where all employees can work artistically for a short time every day while singing. It would be a caf\u00e9, and the menu would include ten minutes of singing, sculpting, eurythmy, painting, thinking, or playing. There would be no claim to a study goal here, no \u201cbest.\u201d People would experience themselves working and could start at any level of education. For now, it is a store without a caf\u00e9 and only with music as food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Which encounters in the store are particularly memorable for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 3: \u201cMy train leaves at ’46.\u2019\u201d The woman wants to sing the song \u201cMaienwind am Abend.\u201d We sing it with a delicate \u201cdim,\u201d ending with \u201cla, la.\u201d It becomes very easy, she beams. In the evening, I received a text message: \u201cThat was the best thing of the day\u2014the May wind, thank you! Great idea.\u201d Day 22: The young Moroccan doesn’t know any songs, so he sings \u201cO\u201d after me. Little by little, his lips, nose, eyes, ears, the top of his head and finally a feeling are supposed to help form the \u201cO\u201d. After a warm and radiant tone, he leaves the store visibly happy. Day 67: A neatly dressed man with a rucksack, a sleeping mat, and no money: we sing, \u201cHey, ho, get excited …\u201d\u2014he is in tears. He becomes quiet, I say: \u201cThat sounds nice\u201d, he replies that he has done everything wrong. I play the postlude of the mourning Pamina\u2014this suffering sounds so beautiful through the music. He calmly leaves after 15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why is music and especially singing so nourishing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A short while ago, I was chewing, swallowing, shouting, and smiling with you\u2014now, all these body parts and functions are being used to sing a beautiful tone and sound. This is the sensory result of a very largely or fully consciously experienced process of thinking, hearing, feeling, and building. I experience myself creating reality. In this way, we are able to free the longing and the need for art from obstacles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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