Learning
Course dates: 4 - 10 August 2013
The Sound and Music Summer School is a life-changing opportunity for anyone aged 14-18 and into creating music. Applications for the 2013 Summer School are now closed.
Sound and Music are developing a partnership to showcase talented composers studying in higher education.
Deadline: 8 April 2013
DIY is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to conceive and run unusual training and professional development projects for other artists.
Call deadlines: 3 December 2012
Sound and Music presents three Portfolio professional development opportunities. Call for applications is now closed.
24 - 26 October 2012
Go Compose! is an intensive composition project in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, for young composers aged 12 – 17 who are still at school.
Oct 2012 - Oct 2013
The Adopt a Composer scheme pairs amateur choirs, orchestras, and ensembles with a composer for one year. It is funded by the PRS for Music Foundation and run by Making Music and Sound and Music.
Minute of Listening is a new initiative for primary schools encouraging pupils and teachers to engage in 60 seconds of focused listening each day.
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April - May 2012
In the latest series of The City Rings Galliard Primary School in Enfield team up with schools in Barcelona and Portugal to share experiences of the places where they live by means of sound.
Sunday 29 January 2012
Sound and Music presents a half-day of discussions exploring career models in the world of modern composition. ***This event is now sold out but there may be returns on the door.***
Tuesday 25 October 2011
Listen & Talk is like a book group for contemporary music. You do some advance listening and come along to discuss it over a drink. Our next event is on the Pixies, introduced by Jennifer Walshe.
May 2011
SAM are delivering Sonic Postcards as part of the St Abbs Music Project: a new initiative celebrating the significance of St Abbs Head in Scotland.
Embedded, Sound and Music’s artist development programme, is a programme of residencies for ambitious artists within pioneering arts organisations in the UK. Read about the current residencies and check out the open calls.
LumiSonic is a sound application that visualises sound in real-time in a way that allows hearing-impaired individuals to interact with a specifically designed, graphical representation of sound.
Sound in Context is a short documentary exploring the unique practice of sound within the visual arts world.
15 – 21 August 2010
Five expert Key Tutors, a dazzling team of supporting staff, seventy-two enthusiastic young composers, an atmosphere buzzing with excitement, energy and creativity...It must be the Summer School!
May - August 2011
Audio Explorers is a sound art bursary scheme that invited primary schools in South Cumbria to explore the creative use of sound through pupil-led projects for Years 5 and 6.
October 2010
SAM worked with partner organisations in Belgium, Spain and Denmark to deliver an international project which enables young people to explore and compare their sonic environments.
Sunday 21 February – Sunday 28 February 2010
SAM partnered with Arika to deliver a week of investigation workshops in the lead up to Kill Your Timid Notion 2010 festival.
May 2010
12 interviews with leading practitioners discuss the impact and consequences of digital technology on audiences and their creation and consumption of music
Sonic Postcards is a creative education project that takes place in schools throughout the UK, encouraging pupils to engage with their sound environment and be creative with ICT.
September - October 2011
The City Rings II links Year 9 pupils in the UK with students at schools in Barcelona and Ghent to explore their local environments by means of sound.
A series of national symposia and associated action research projects to explore and develop creative approaches to composition in schools