The Participatory Orchestra: a place of education and practice of otherness

The article focuses on the notion of participatory orchestra (PO) that brings together musicians and non-musicians of all ages and backgrounds in order to create a common sound. Essentially inclusive, the OP makes it possible to practice listening and empathy by experimenting with new ways of living together, including in the places of relegation of our contemporary societies (prisons). Here we question the meaning of music in human life, as non-verbal art and sensory language; its importance in education, centred today on rational logic as the foundation of mental life in the service of the market economy, and not on sensitivity and imagination, dominant values of the human. We will show how the development of musical awareness can be an educational process through participation as a social force and expression of a sensitivity that music shapes by awakening the desire to learn. It's leads to emancipation, the true goal of education.