Making Music with Sounds [Paperback]

Making Music with Soundsoffers a creative introduction to the art of making sound-based music. It introduces the elements of making compositions with sounds and facilitates creativity in school age children, with the activities primarily for 11-14 year old students. It can also be used by people of all ages becoming acquainted with this music for the first time.

Sound-based music is defined as the art form in which the sound, rather than the musical note, is the basic unit and is closely related to electronic music and the sonic arts. The art of sound organisation can be found in a number of forms of music--in film, television, theatre, dance, and new media. Despite this, there are few materials available currently for young people to discover how to make sound-based music. This book offers a programme of development starting from aural awareness, through the discovery and organisation of potential sounds, to the means of generating and manipulating sounds to create sequences and entire works. The books holistic pedagogical approach to composition also involves aspects related to musical understanding and appreciation, reinforced by the authors online pedagogical ElectroAcoustic Resource Site (EARS II).

Part 1. Crossing the Threshold1. A delineation of the two key areas: Sound-based music/Making music with technology 2. An overview of selected genres and categories related to sound-based music Part 2. Discovering Music All Around Us3. Discovering soundscapes 4. Investigating soundscapes 5. Composing soundscapes Part 3. The Sounds of Sound-Based Music6. Finding real-world sounds 7. Synthetic sounds 8. Sculpting with sounds Part 4. Organising Sounds/1: Combining Sounds and Creating Sonic Gestures 8. Placing sounds in sequences 9. Creating, analysing and evaluating sonic gestures Part 5. Organising Sounds/2:l#@