We have been using our imaginations to create a piece of music using sounds we could find in our environment. First of all we had to explore our classroom to find a range of 'found' sounds that we could use to make music. We ended up rubbing, hitting, banging, shaking and tapping all sorts of things. This was a pretty noisy stage of the process. We then read this poem called 'Two Day Wonder' written by David Hill. We had to interpret the writing and use the sounds we had found to write a piece of music that reflected what was written. This is not as easy as it sounds. We had to create symbols to represent each sound and then use these symbols in a pattern that we could read and repeat as a performance piece. A lot a teamwork was involved here and everyone in the groups had to contribute. We all had to perform our 'soundscapes' which were really good. Everyone could read their music and it showed that we had all worked hard to represent the poem. We figured out a few things that we could do better next time, the main thing being to play more sounds at the same time like a band or orchestra. We are now going to use the same poem to write a piece of music using GarageBand. We will be able to use what we have learned when making our soundscapes to help us.
