Digital composition workshop - Warwickshire Heritage Learning

Workshop title	Digital composition workshop
Key stage	1 and 2
Delivered at	Market Hall Museum, Warwick
Duration	2 hours
Main focus	Music, ICT, English
Workshop outline	Explore the museum and create a soundscape of Market Hall Museum using Bare Conductive Touch Boards. These boards are easy to use, hands-on, mini arduinos that allow you to turn any surface into a sensor. This workshop uses them to playback sounds created by your class in response to the museum and a collection of handling objects from the museum. Pupils will work with digital equipment they won’t have experienced before in a creative way responding to a unique museum environment. Working in small groups pupils will be introduced to the kit and guiding in making their own sound responses to an object. A tour of the Market Hall Museum will explain what a soundscape is and give inspiration. You will be able to take the top sound recordings back to school with you on your own USB storage device.
Key skills covered	Creating music with out musical instruments. Using digital technology to create sounds The use of voice and other methods to create music Thinking creatively Working collaboratively in small groups
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