One fugue for several voices

Abstract

In Music, an escape is a composition where several voices dialogue, ask and respond, pursuing each other in a rich counterpoint in symmetries and inversions. In the context of a prison escape the word acquires a more complex meaning that goes beyond the body's escape to the walls and barbed wire of the prison: the body is stuck, but the spirit can not handcuff. Today's presentation tells stories of how piano music gave wings to fly. From the counterpoint between the voices of the participants of two projects in two Portuguese prisons is the path that reveals new ways of making music in the community, exploring the principles of inclusion, democratization and active participation as foundations of all work.