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Collaborative Music Through Movement and Sign

Harmony Signing is a gestural language that allows people to share musical ideas without using words or traditional notation. Through movement, listening, and visual interaction, participants create and shape music together in a collaborative and expressive way.

Uses hand gestures and arm movement instead of notation

Uses hand gestures and arm movement instead of notation

Encourages improvisation
and group interaction

Harmony Signing is a gestural language that allows people to share musical ideas without using words or traditional notation. Through movement, listening, and visual interaction, participants create and shape music together in a collaborative and expressive way.

Dr. Ewa Schreiber

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

This kinaesethic approach to the teaching and learning of harmony allows learners of all ages to experiment, create, and perform through active music-making.

Photograph of Aoife Hiney

Aoife Hiney

Escola Superior de Educação (Instituto Politécnico do Porto)

Learning Pathway

Explore our guided video series with 75 videos designed to explain the fundamentals of Harmony Signing. Paired with simple explanations and downloadable resources to help put everything into practice.

Harmony Signing around the world

With participants across the UK, Portugal, and Australia, this is a growing experience bringing people together through the techniques we teach.

Nicholas Bannan
Valerie Bannan
Dr Joshua Bamford
Aoife Hiney