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sustain_sound

A Modular Seminar and Workshops on Sustainability in Music Education by TEAM

What is sustain_sound? Who is it for? How long does it take?
Key ideas
Competences: The participants will...
🔗 Pool of ideas on sustainability and sound in music education

Module 1: Introducing "sustain_sound"

Why should sustainability and the future be linked to music? What does ecological music education and futures thinking mean? These questions and more will be clarified in this introductory module.

Why connecting soundscapes, sustainability and futures?

sustain_sound fader - past, present, and futures - License: Philip Stade for TEAM CC-BY-4.0

What is ecological music education and what is soundscape ecology?
What is futures thinking?
Dystopian or utopian futures?

photos by William Bout on Unsplash and Daryan Shamkhali on Unsplash

Module 2: Exploring and Listening to Soundscapes

What are soundscapes, how can they be used, and who has influenced them? Definitions and examples.

Make the listening exercises a ritual.
What are soundscapes?
Dive deeper into soundscapes by listening to this podcast.
Watch the short film "Listen".
Start a discussion on listening and sound.
What is the World Soundscape Project about?
Investigate with Bernie Krause how sound reveals environmental change.
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Source: YouTube

Explore Hildegard Westerkamp's work.

H. Westerkamp with camel. © Photo: Peter Grant

Listen to the interview on Westerkamp's "Whisper Study"
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Constellation podcast on Hildegard Westerkamp's"Whisper Study" - more information here

Selected soundscapes by Hildegard Westerkamp
Soundscape example 1: "Under the Flight Path" by Hildegard Westerkamp (1981)
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"Under the Flight Path" A sound document about life near the airport for 2-channel audio (1981) by Hildegard Westerkamp - Source

Soundscape example 2: "Vancouver Harbour Ambience" by R. Murray Schafer and the World Soundscape Project (1973)
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"Vancouver Harbour Ambience" produced by the World Soundscape Project, Simon Fraser University / directed and edited by R. Murray Schafer

Soundscape example 3: "RIVERSSSOUNDS" - interactive soundscapes with sounds from rivers in Europe

Module 3: Getting Creative with Sounds

So how getting creative with sounds? Here are a few ideas and ways to explore sounds and sound compositions in the classroom.

Create a soundmap.
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Do a soundwalk.
Record the past, present and/or futures.
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Assignment: sustain_sound workshop on different futures
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What does sustainability sound like?
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By Godfrey Reggio

What else to explore on sound compositions?
Pool of ideas on sustainability and sound in music education

Module 4: Designing and Presenting Your Own Soundscapes

How to create your own soundscapes and, above all, present them? Here are some instructions, recording tips, and inspiration.

Create your own soundscape
Design Thinking to sketch ideas for your soundscape
Recording tools and tips
Presentation of the created soundscapes
Do you need some inspiration, how soundscapes could sound like?

References

References
More inspiration needed?
Credits based on credit.niso.org

Conceptualisation, Implementation, Evaluation & Re-design: Philip Stade, Eva-Maria Tralle, Jonas Völker & Johanna Klingenberg

Review & Editing: Thade Buchborn, Lina Van Dooren, Jonė Girdzijauskaitė-Pocienė, Anna Houmann, Elissavet Perakaki, Branka Rotar Pance, Michael Rumpeltes, Philip Stade & Lena Widdermann

Visualisation & OER Design: Philip Stade & Lena Widdermann

Contact: p.stade@mh-freiburg.de

This learning offer is developed by TEAM and part of design-based research. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.