The DBW constellation started as one of the smallest in the CMT Universe. It was formed by just two “bodies”: the performance Dooo Ba Wooo and the CD DBW#25. But even then it was, perhaps, already one of the largest, since both artistic experiences result from a comprehensive and open reading of the entire creation of the Companhia de Música Teatral (CMT).
Dooo Ba Wooo is a performance with memories of snails, turtles, sunflowers, whales, birds and many other songs emerging from the trunk of Companhia de Música Teatral. For more than 20 years, we have been developing artistic projects for babies that have definitively contributed to the awareness that musical experiences at the earliest ages can contribute to the intellectual and affective development of human beings. Bebé Babá, Andakibebé, Bebé Plim Plim, Babelim, Bichofonia and several PaPIs gave rise to songs, rhythmic chants, small stories, riddles, movements, which were part of books, CDs and shows. In Dooo Ba Wooo, parents and babies travel through these memories, with improvisation and play.
As we learn to create artistic experiences for the youngest, we also learn that adult involvement is a very important part of a full experience. And perhaps CMT’s “global aesthetic” reflects this path, even when we approach very different ideas, subjects and audiences. CMT’s repertoire is very comprehensive and we have found, over the years, that projects that we had initially conceived for older people could be revisited and continue to amaze everyone. With the CD DBW#25, which is part of the same constellation, we have perhaps taken even further what we had glimpsed in Ornitópera or A Liberdade a Passar Por Aqui: the possibility of creating territories of multiple readings, of sharing space and time, small, fragile and ephemeral universes, woven of sounds. We can call it “intersubjectivity” or simply accept that we still know very little about who we are and that it is through experimentation that we discover that Music is an infinite universe.
After releasing DBW#25, at the XIV International Colloquium Arts for Childhood and Social and Human Development at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation we realized that we witnessed an exceptional experience that should be reproduced on a regular basis. This led us to create the “mediation action” Visita Guiada a DBW#25: a lively dialogue with “motifs” and “interpellations” that serve as starters for attentive, commented listening, a journey through the music, poetry and stories that the CD invites to share.