Digital material | Composing Sounds through Digital Apps

The educational material “Composing Sounds through Digital Apps” is addressed to teachers who want to discover sound with their students, to produce recordings inside and outside the classroom and to compose music with digital tools.

What do the words “sound”, “soundscape” and “listening” mean? What does the term “contemporary music” include and what is the art of sounds? In the first section of the handbook, we approach these concepts as a way of introduction to the world of music. The second section is followed by activities that could form the axis of a complete workshop. Practice your hearing by listening and recording the sounds around you, recollect auditory memories with your students, understand the close relation between emotions and sounds, and learn recording techniques to compose your own work as a group, which can be connected with other artistic school activities.

By approaching sound and music interdisciplinary, we suggest a series of actions that do not require knowledge of music. Artistic discovery is our main intention, with the ultimate goal of enhancing expression and communication, through engaging in new artistic pursuits and forms of expression.