Lesson 1:
Exploring everyday sounds by collecting and recording sounds from your day, then using them together to make a sound art piece that describes the fluctuations of your day from quiet to loud - could become an interesting reflection to how different parts of our lives are characterized through sound and the noises we are surrounded by.
In a way, this project reminds me a line exploration project we did at TCCS where students varied lines to show the ups and the downs of their day - characterizing what they ate for breakfast, the drive to school, etc all through a singular line. How might a single clip describe an event, a feeling, a reaction?
Lesson 2:
Unusual sounds; learning to mix and amplify unusual materials to create interesting samples to create different effects; end experience could be to play in an empty room to see how it changes the atmosphere. Given the space and equipment, it could be great to experiment how the sounds and sound pieces change given the place - whether through headphones or an empty room to a loud room. Students could examine the impact of the space in which they listen. The second part of this is using unusual materials to create sounds - examining how cardboard sound when it is rubbed with a pipe cleaner or the swishing sounds of bubble wrap being crumpled. Could the bubble wrap sound be amplified in an empty space to reflect the crunching of leaves? What could this say? Etc.
Exploring everyday sounds by collecting and recording sounds from your day, then using them together to make a sound art piece that describes the fluctuations of your day from quiet to loud - could become an interesting reflection to how different parts of our lives are characterized through sound and the noises we are surrounded by.
In a way, this project reminds me a line exploration project we did at TCCS where students varied lines to show the ups and the downs of their day - characterizing what they ate for breakfast, the drive to school, etc all through a singular line. How might a single clip describe an event, a feeling, a reaction?
Lesson 2:
Unusual sounds; learning to mix and amplify unusual materials to create interesting samples to create different effects; end experience could be to play in an empty room to see how it changes the atmosphere. Given the space and equipment, it could be great to experiment how the sounds and sound pieces change given the place - whether through headphones or an empty room to a loud room. Students could examine the impact of the space in which they listen. The second part of this is using unusual materials to create sounds - examining how cardboard sound when it is rubbed with a pipe cleaner or the swishing sounds of bubble wrap being crumpled. Could the bubble wrap sound be amplified in an empty space to reflect the crunching of leaves? What could this say? Etc.
