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Projects for Young People |
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- Soundbeam (accessible technology converting movement into music): Producing multi-media compositions which may combine recorded sound, electronic music, photography/video and movement.
- Seasons & Cycles Using Heather's Soundbeam piece as inspiration for creativity in music, dance, poetry & visual art, working towards performance.
- Vocal work: Valuing our voice and finding new ways of using it.
- Composition through improvisation: Games, spontaneity and awareness of silence.
- Linking with other artforms: eg integrating voice & body sounds with dance; using visual art as musical scores.
- Using music to explore areas of the curriculum: eg percussion pieces about rock erosion; finding out why sound is so important to the Baka pygmies of Cameroon.
- Writing, especially poetry: Describing everyday life and exploring language by trying out accessible poetic forms.
- Numeracy through music: Invent the rules, roll the dice and see how the music unravels.
- All projects planned and undertaken in conjunction with teacher(s).
- Mainstream KS2 and special education projects preferred.
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"We learned that music travels - in waves, in circles, in straight lines, in vibrations and across the world."
Year 4, Newstead Primary School
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| Elektrodome commission: Seasons and Cycles with Year 4 pupils, Leighswood School, Aldridge, 2002 |
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| Musical Snowballs 1 |
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| Musical Snowballs 2 |
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| Singing of summer heat |
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| Sampling the sound of conkers |
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aliss (Artists and Learning Information and Support Service): Consultant Artist 2003/4
Coloured Blobs of Sound, an aliss project with visual artist Jim Morris
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Outdoor Spaces Play Project
with visual artist Tess Hills |
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| Noisy Washing |
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| Exploring Acoustics 1 |
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| Exploring Acoustics 2 |
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| Making Shakers |
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| Soundbeam Trail |
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Examples of projects:
- Birmingham Royal Ballet Composition and recording of vocal/dance piece Look, for Fox Hollies School, 1996; Music/dance project, Far from the Madding Crowd, King Edward VI Handsworth School,1998
- Cheltenham International Festival of Music: schools workshops & performances 1996-2001
- Walsall Community Arts: Poet/musician, SCAN CD-ROM Schools project with Walsall Art Gallery, 1999
- Shropshire County Council: Maths Year 2000 schools residency with Alchemy; Creativity Hour Composition project in 5 Stoke-on-Trent schools, 2001
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Tornado by Heather,
Dresden School |
- Fox Hollies Special School: Soundbeam workshops & performances of The Manipulation of Mario Net at CBSO Centre, Birmingham & Special Needs Technology Conference,York, 2001
- Soundbeam Project commission, The Selfish Note, premiered at Sefton Park Junior School, St Andrews, Bristol, 2001
- Acocks Green Junior School: Residency linking music with history, visual art and dance, 2001
- artSites Youth Music Action Zone, Birmingham Soundbeam artist working with young children, 2002
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B'ham City Council/ Vivid/ The Drum/ Bham Film & TV Festival/ Mayfield School:
Composer for Massive Message animated film project working with teenagers with learning disabilities, Spring/Summer 2002. The film, Down the Plughole, has been screened as follows:
- Premiere @ mac Cinema
- Spirit (Birmingham's Commonwealth Games festival)
- ArtsFest Screen It @ Rep Door
- National Deaf Film & TV Festival @ Wolverhampton Lighthouse
- Birmingham Film & TV Festival's "Young Voices" event
- London Disability Film Festival @ National Film Theatre
- BBCi
Nominations/Awards :
- Film Council First Light Initiative nomination for "best documentary"
- Chicago Cinema for the Deaf award for "best short film 30 - 60mins"
- KynnysKINO5 @ Helsinki Art Gallery nomination for "best short film"
- Picture this... Film Festival, Calgary, Canada : Winner, Animation Under 10 mins by Filmmaker with a disability
- Hertfordshire Music Service: Composer-in-Residence, Soundbeam and the Arts, SEN schools, 2003
- aliss (Artists and Learning Information and Support Service): Consultant Artist 2003/4
- Sound Futures: Soundbeam, Percussion And Composition Experience, Transition project based at College High School, Erdington 2003/4
- Creative Partnerships/ Craftspace Wilson Stuart Outdoor Spaces Play Project: Birmingham, Spring 2004 with Visual Artist, Tess Hills
- Creative Partnerships/ Mayfield School Soundbeam Residency: Birmingham, ongoing from September 2003
- Solihull MBC Teaching Creatively Project: Lead Artist for year-long project, 2004/5
- Creative Partnerships Black Country :Orchard Special School, Soundbeam and Space, Soundbeam project with visual artist Harmeet Chagger, 2006
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| Choosing Switches |
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| Building a bamboo room 1 |
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| Building a bamboo room 2 |
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| Building a bamboo room 3 |
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| In the bamboo room |
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| Bendy Sound Wall |
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