Antony Hall - Table Top Experiments

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- Instrument making and exploring the science of sound.
- Sound recording and making podcast's

A science, art, design technology and music project developed with Arts Catalyst. The workshop covered: Sound physics, electronics, using sound editing software [ Audacity ] over a period of 7days.

Electro-acoustics
Through listening and using contact microphones to amplify sound, the sonic properties of materials were explored through experimentation. Instruments were made which harnessed these properties. Groups were given a basic theme and core materials around which to design and make the instrument. The recordings were edited using free audio editing software called Audacity.

Listen to sounds...

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The following composition extracts are made from looped sounds collected during the workshop from the instruments:

Pod cast workshops
As part of an Art & Science day across the school organised in collaboration with Arts Catalyst; We worked on a podcast - the idea was that a group of students were sent into space to send back radio transmissions across space - telling the rest of the school about the day to day life onboard the space craft and encounters with strange aliens. here is one example...

CJC94 crew

The final podcast's were completed and played across the school using the tanoy system.

Water works - Globus adventure
Waterworks was a Creative Partnerships London East and South project with St Michael & All Angels Church of England Academy. Special thanks to Tim Smith. This is an epic pod cast by one group ..

Images from workshops...

Experimenting with contact mics, and mini amp.

The Chitar.

Sound generating Circuit.

Brush with contact mics.

Thanks to Sian Pugh, Justine Alcock and Lyndsey Housden and Marian Carroll.

Special thanks to the parent teachers association and Jenny Woodrow for their support.
An Arts Catalyst project