The Creason workshop

Creative and participative

Students could work on the project to create musical prototypes and bring them to the Eco-Logical Show! Give your children the unique opportunity to meet the musicians-designers.

1-they could work on a musical instruments before our venue : We will help students to adjust their prototype and practice a musical part they will play the Eco-Logical Show! Ex.: Madagascar or Ecological.

2-Otherwise, we can build prototypes from the beginning.

After the workshops, they will improvise during the Eco-Logical Show! They will benefit from the assistance and advice from the experts of reinvented percussion, providing a creative "environmusical" effort! CréaSon aims to promote young people's musical creativity and increase their self-esteem by promoting a unique performance and kid's persistence in school with their environmental beliefs: Save the planet! "All children are geniuses, all is to bring up" Charlie Chaplin

The workshop is listed in the Québec Directory of Culture-Education Resources, as part of the Culture at School (MELS) program.

Being ecological is so logical! On the road since 1991, and with more than 3,000 

performances in various venues, festivals and schools.

CréaSon is the brain child of Sylvain Grenier, a musician with boundless imagination for whom the vast choice of existing instruments was not enough. Out of hockey sticks, car wheels, cans, pans and golf equipment, he made "xylo-hockeys", "cans o' fun", "pans o' fun" and "golfuns" to create new sounds. CréaSon's environmentally focused approach to percussion instruments encourages children to explore their creativity and musicality through found objects and repurposed materials. Together we can save the planet!

Sylvain Grenier

Holder of a bachelor's degree in jazz interpretation and popular music (drums) from the University of Montreal, Sylvain Grenier performed as a marimba soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra during his studies.

As musician-designer and composer in the group SCRAP: Concept Show for Recovery and the Art of Percussion, Sylvain Grenier produced the latest show La Biodiversité en musique! which was presented at Théâtre Plaza in Montreal on December 10, 2022, during COP15.

He participated in the Montreal Drum Fest in 1996 and 2001, as well as in the Sommet technologie under the direction of Robert Lepage in 1998. Since 1991, he has offered more than 3,000 performances of CréaSon and SCRAP in Canada in addition to have participated in about twenty television programs as a guest artist.

Musician, designer and composer

AlainQuirion

Alain Quirion is a drummer, percussionist and singer for Zébulon and many Quebec artists including Daniel Bélanger, Marc Déry, Robert Charlebois, Dumas, David Jalbert and Les Cowboys Fringants.

Alain Quirion has been performing since 2000 with CréaSon and SCRAP. Having more than one string to his bow, Alain devotes himself to the production, programming and creation of original songs and films.

Accompanying musician and composer