The humanity of the music activity within Tocatas

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to trace the social and musical relevance of the
event known as “Tocata”, in Florianópolis/ SC. Proposed as an informal meeting,
open and not restricted to musicians, the
Tocata opens itself as a shared experience
that favors different potentialities of musical making, as well as the reinvention of
the relationship that participants have with
music. Given this specificity of the interactions and the human conviviality, as they
occur there, the Tocata allows us an artistic-musical experience that occurs in the
becoming of a creative, simultaneous and
collective process, where the musical action intends to present itself in an affective,
spontaneous and intuitive way. The data of
the research is taken from reports of participants registered between 2015 and 2016
for the Final Paper (TCC): Experimental
Conviviality and Musical Improvisation in
the Tocata: the production of an ethico-
-aesthetic attitude. We have placed these
reports in articulation with our own experience, as participants and researchers
in the field of music and visual arts, and
in dialogue with these fields we introduce
descriptions of the Tocata and reflections
that have accompanied us during the last
years.