Brief summary of activity
Look at this pattern, forms and figures. How does they sound like? Use your voice and other materials to find the sound to each figure.
Aim of the activity
Sensitisation of sound.
Expected Outcomes
Awareness of sounds in daily life.
Awareness about how sound influences our imagination.
Experience and skills required
No specific skills required.
Infrastructure, setting, resources
No specific skills required.
Length
30 – 40 min
Material
Forms and figures (example attached)
recording devices (optional)
papers and pencils
How the activity should take place
The group try do describe the sound of the pictures/pattern/structures all together. You can record it, if you want. Do you all assign the same sound to these figures?
Recommended max. number of participants and trainees to trainers ratio
Max. 12
Risk and possible adaptation
If you work with blind people, use objects instead of figures and pictures. For example: a box, a ball or objects with different textures (sponge, etc.).
Variations
Split in two groups.
Each group works in a different room and has to find and record the sound they assigned to the shapes/figures.
The participants are not allowed to see the figures of the other group.
The groups listen to the recordings of the other group and draw the forms and figures they believe the sound has been assigned to. Does the drawing look the same like the figures and forms?
Tips for Trainers
Look at Murray Schafers “A sound education. 100 Exercises in Listening and Soundmaking” to find more exercises.
Requirements for participants
Max. 12
Analysis and evaluation
What sound do we associate with the of figures or objects? What do the sounds tell us about the figures and objects and why do we associated these sounds to this figures and objects?
Scheduling
What does the sound of figures or objects tell us about their characters or about our imaginations of their characters?