Learning & Participation

Sound and Music believes that when you get creatively involved in something, either as an audience member, a creator or participant, you get more out of the experience and are more likely to continue your explorations. Sound and Music aims to create contexts and environments where as many people as possible can share in the rich experiences that the arts can give.

Sound and Music Summer School 2010

15-21 August at the Purcell School of Music. If you're aged 14-18 and are into creating music, the Sound and Music Summer School could be the opportunity of a lifetime...

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Our Aims are

To develop the engagement of people of all ages, from children to adults, with new music and sound, as audiences, creators and participants

To enable outstanding composers, performers, sound artists, producers and promoters of new music and sound to become entrepreneurial and self-sustaining

To develop Sound and Music into an organisation with a culture based on evaluation, reflection and learning

Lab Testing

We like to test out ideas. At Sound and Music we have created a lab where potential project ideas can be piloted. If you have an idea you think we could test out, please get in touch.

Learning blog posts

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Sound and Music Last.fm

I've been having a look through last.fm and putting together some playlists, mainly as an introduction to the history of the music and sound we're involved in.

Please feel free to make contributions and to be our friend- I've tried to keep a broad range of artists, and those with playable material up.

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Nicolas Collins DIY Reverb

Nicolas Collins is and experimental musician and author of Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking, a bible for anyone who want to make their own electroni

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Field Recording Guide

I've just finished putting together a guide to field recording, focusing on cheap and DIY solutions.  You can download it here.

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Thames Walk: Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair, celebrated writer, documentarist, film maker, metropolitan prophet, urban shaman and keeper of lost cultures discusses his current work describing a Thames walk.

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Turner and the Thames: Nicola Moorby

Tate Britain’s curator Nicola Moorby explores the relationship between Turner and the Thames through his paintings.

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Engagement Projects

  • Fontana masterclass millenium bridge

    Bill Fontana Engagement Programme

    Engagement work with Bill Fontana
  • Simon Katan

    Engaging with Sound

    A film exploring pedagogy and workshop leading as a creative practice

  • Sound and Music Summer School 2010

    15-21 August at the Purcell School of Music. If you're aged 14-18 and are into creating music, the Sound and Music Summer School could be the opportunity of a lifetime...
  • Mira Calix

    Expo Youth

    Artists Mira Calix, Glen Boulter and Heads Together are currently working with young people in Leeds to create newly commissioned sound installations
  • Lumisonic

    Lumisonic

    Lumisonic is a free new software that enables hearing impaired people to 'see' sound.

  • Raga Explorer

    Raga Explorer is an interactive tool that gives you the chance to discover the Indian classical music form, Raga, by playing with it and creating your own music.

  • Summer School 2009

    The Summer School is an annual event where young people unleash their compositional and creative talent
  • collecting sounds at the sea

    Sonic Postcards

    Sonic Postcards is UK-wide and international creative learning project

Professional Development Projects

  • Embedded

    Sound and Music’s new artist development programme

  • BCMG Apprentice Composer-in-Residence

    Charlotte Bray is appointed Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's Apprentice Composer-in-Residence for 2009/10 season
  • SAM/OTO

    SAM/OTO - CALL FOR EVENT PROPOSALS

    Sound and Music is teaming up with London’s hub for experimental music Café Oto to award four grants of £2,000 towards the creation of new live events
  • Simon Katan

    Engaging with Sound

    A film exploring pedagogy and workshop leading as a creative practice
  • Martin Suckling - Photo by T Oksanen

    Adopt a Composer

    Applications for Adopt a Composer 2010/11are now closed and we will announce the new partnerships in the coming weeks. Watch this space!

  • Knowledge Futures

    A unique conference to explore the movement and transfer of knowledge
  • The Rehearsal and Performance Room at Handel House © Matthew Hollow

    Spirituoso at Handel House

    In partnership with Handel House Museum, we present an opportunity for our Shortlist composers to create a new work for Spirituoso, the Museum's resident ensemble.
  • Bursaries to Composers

    Bursaries to Composers Scheme

    Bursaries to Composers is the British Council's new scheme for composers to attend performances of their work overseas. Supported and administered by Sound and Music.

  • Contemporary Voices

    Contemporary Voices aims to represent a generation of composers by ensuring that scores, recordings and information about their work are more accessible
  • The Shortlist 2009

    The Shortlist

    The Shortlist is changing....
  • New Voices

    New Voices

    New Voices is developing into a new programme for artists and composers
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