Sound Sculpture: Creating a theme for a soundscape made with homemade instruments
Sound Sculpture: A new project exploring homemade instruments with a group of musicians with learning disabilities. The Carousel House Band is an integrated group from Brighton consisting of learning disabled musicians and music facilitators.
We explore creative music making through a variety of project work designed to give the group interesting and rewarding challenges and provide collaboration opportunities with the wider community. In this project we are looking at homemade instruments; exploring how they work and in what ways we can have fun playing them.
As our project developed we began to combine the sounds from the homemade instruments to create a unique soundscape. We discussed how the music made us all feel. The band decided the music has a ‘Space’ theme and began to build on this idea by writing some words that would go with the music. We collected words and phrases from everyone in the group. We wrote these down on separate pieces of paper and explored adding and changing the order of the phrases until the band was happy with the final result:
Rocket, Whoosh, Lift off!
Jupiter, moon, mars, Space, Yellow stars
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Pluto
Stars Twinkling up in the Sky, Floating in Air
Dark Stars, Astronaut in Space
At the Moon, Feel Amazing
Mercury, Yellow Stars
