'Put The Needle On The Record' (2012)

Part of the portfolio for my Master's degree (2012).

St Barnabas Sound Map 03 (Year 1)

The Year 1 class at St Barnabas were given a talk about active listening, and the difference between active and passive listening.

They were then shown a Sound Map of the World in which you can hear recorded sounds from around the globe. We listened to sounds (recordings) from various places in the world, and the pupils described what they could hear. Lastly, the pupils were then sent out in small groups to capture sounds with hand-held recording devices, with the idea of collecting material for their own Sound Map of St Barnabas School.

Click on the map pointers to hear where the sounds were recorded. Or play from the SoundCloud list below.

From looking at frogs, listening to taps, and jumping off steps the children seemed to be lost in a world of sound...I think the railings are my favourite!




Here are the sounds in a SoundCloud list:

"The creative gesture or intention of recording provides a result, a document, certainly from which seemingly endless possibilities stream."

St Barnabas Sound Map 02 (Year 5)

Year 5 at St Barnabas took their turn at recording and mapping sounds in their school towards the end of 2013. Many took to the idea of an 'archive' in rather touching ways, leaving spoken testaments to their friends and introducing spaces and people vocally when they were in charge of the microphone. Although these poignant eulogies will be archived as part of the whole project, most of the intentionally narrated spoken aspects have been left out, because initially the idea is that all sounds are 'secret' (i.e. we don't know who the recordist is..), and that we are listening to the natural ambience, and naturally occurring sounds...



You can also listen to the sounds (on their own or mixed with the locations above) in the SoundCloud list below...