painting echoes

'I'm painting echoes'

xy piece

the x y piece
vocal composition based on sounds heard in the classroom
footsteps door bang talking toilet flushes door opens distant talking people writing on paper echoes tapping a honk distant wind swooshing picking paper up

(duration and pitch)

Week 2 Bowling Pk

Mapping the school Sonically

Create floor plan of the school

descriptive text

sounds that give a sense of the space (where it is, what it is)

 

Unusual sounds that you can find (ones no-one will guess what they are, mysteries)

Words that describe the sounds

Take pictures of the space from unusual angles and details that other people might not see.

sound traps

3 groups revisit the space and trap sounds whilst absent. Record 3 minutes.

Bring back and put onto audacity, choose the best minute of each group.

X&Y Composition 2 by timchatt

esscence

the 'is-ness' of is.

session 1 outlined

1.Intros, Aims of project: to explore sounds, to compose make & create

2. Whats your favourite sound / I love the sound of…..

name game clap clap name, clap clap repeat. x2 then clap clap all together

focus-pass the  newspaper-listening

10 mins

3. Journals: What do you want to want to happen? What are you expecting?

20 mins

4. Sound Maps: mapping the classroom (paper + pencils). We scribe the their description of each sound for the sound wall.

20 mins

5. Sound Map gym with stickers/post-its. Children put post-it where they thought the sounds came from. We collect and scribe the description of each sound

20 mins

6. X & Y composition. Explain pitch, duration and how the piece works. They choose 5 sounds from the sound wall and place them on the X + Y axis.

Play the piece with a human clock all together. RECORD. Play back using Coomber. Refine and play again.

40 mins

7. Plenary. 10 mins.