PAOLO CERLATI

A percussionist who has been part of  professional musical formations in the area of popular music. 
From 1977 conducted researches in the areas of pedagogy, teaching and musical animation and in 1983 planned and developed the Atelier of Music of Biella, a space for sperimentation-exchange-confrontation-play which he directs.
From 1986 teaches in the music therapy courses held by the Centre of Permanent Education of the P.C.C. in Assisi and in this same area  also teaches at: the School for Formation in Music Therapy in Rome; the Music Therapy Course of the C.M.T. in Milan; the three-year school of Music Therapy in Turin; the three-year course of Music Therapy in Bari. 
For many years now holds update-formation courses in Italy and abroad for numerous organizations and institutions: University of Bologna; University of Zaragoza – Centre for Musical and Social studies M.Di Benedetto in Lecco – S.I.E.M. (Italian Society for Musical Education) – O.S.I. (Orff-Schulwerk Italiano) – Boroughs, Provinces and Regions and other organizations and associations.
Author and composer of music dedicate to infancy and developer of the first festival dedicated to this life- stage: “BI come Bambini” (B for Children) promoted by the Piedmont Region, the Province and the City of Biella.
From 2008 is the pedagogic teaching consultant for the primary school of the Publishing Group “Casa Editrice De Agostini” in Novara.

Collaboration with reviews and newspapers:

- MUSICHERIA - telematic review of the Centro Studi Sociali of Di Benedetto in Lecco;
- MUSICASCUOLA - teaching review for the primary school – Nicola Milano, Editor, Bologna;
- MUSICA-DOMANI - review of the S.I.E.M. (Italian Society for Musical Education) Edizioni Ricordi, Milano;
- CIEMME - quarterly review of research, study and information on mass communication, Edizioni Cinit Cineforum Italiano, Venezia.
- LA CARTELLINA - review of teaching and choir music – Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milano
- LA STAMPA SERA in Torino

Pubblicazioni

- D. Albarello – P. Cerlati - E. Strobino – “LA BOTTEGA DEI SEGNI” Città di Biella 1986
- P. Cerlati - E. Strobino - D. Vineis “IL CANONE” – Materials and projects for teaching activities”  Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milano 1987
- P. Cerlati - E. Strobino - D. Vineis “...E L’ARIA ASCOLTERÀ” - PCC Assisi 1989
- P. Cerlati - G.P. Pini - M. Prinetti “VIVA LA MUSICA” - PCC Assisi 1992
- P. Cerlati - D. Albarello “ABITARE I SUONI” - PCC - Assisi 1995
- P. Cerlati – “CANTARE LA VITA” - PCC - Assisi 1998
- P. Cerlati (a cura di) – “OH ISSA a musical show in an assembling box” PCC  Assisi 2002
- P. Cerlati - E. Strobino - D. Vineis “Agorafonia” in Enrico Strobino - Maurizio Vitali “Playing the city” – FrancoAngeli editore - Milano 2003
- P- Cerlati (care of) “GATTINANDO”, Comune di Gattinara,2003
- P. Cerlati, A. Garello, G.C. Pini, M. Prinetti “ATELIER DI MUSICA sounds, symbols and signs to reinvent”, ETS, 2005 Pisa
- M.Amoia, P. Cerlati “MUSICARTE”, De Agostini Novara editions 2009

SEARCHING FOR THE LOST BODY
Music and complexity.

Languages: French, English, Italian.

In our body co-exist “memories” of the elements which make up the cosmos, traces of biological evolution of life on the earth, the history and progression of the human species, of our society and of the culture to which we belong and, last, but not least, the events, the stories taken from real life and the experiences deriving from our personal path of existence.  In each of our singular and unique forms of life, all these components, which we elaborate via our own original manner of living in the world, are stratified.
By using this “observation” strategy the pedagogic paradigm for referral can be no other than that of “the complex thought” which implies the interaction between disciplines, languages and knowledge; thus, in this intertwining of “varieties” and “differences”, where boundaries are prefigured as “exchange spaces” and not as places of separation, the constellation of “files” and ideas, which generate the “process thought” and the “net thought”, is born. 
History relating to the philosophy of the West (Greek-Jewish-Christian) is found to be crossed, where the body is concerned, by a deep tear, a dualism –soul body- which, starting with Platone, has marked all our culture (from Saint Augustine to Cartesio, from the scientific thought to the technological one) and has characterized our pedagogy and respective theory of education.  One of the most evident results is that, for children and teenagers going to school means losing their body: forgetting it.  Maybe no minister for Public Instruction or Education has ever posed himself this very simple question: “For how long con a six-year old child remain still and seated?”
To give an answer to this query means to revise all educational projects and programmes.
Music, and generally all expressive languages, can oppose themselves to the “dominant calculative thought” where numbers, quantities and rationalizations are never confronted and do not “blend” together with the emotional, affective and symbolic dimensions which are the “qualities” that move, dissuade and deeply touch,; “qualities” which must always be present and not “frozen” in both a non-educational rapport and a sound one.
The seminar aims to give some possible answers in order to search for the entirety of the body which, in 2500 historical years of separations and divisions, is progressively “immobilizing” children and teenagers.