MUSICASA Sound Drawers

By: Istituto Centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi
    School sections
    • Primary
    • Upper secondary school
    • Lower secondary school
    Educational subjects
    • Aural skills (Ear training)
    • Composition
    • soundscapes
    • Music and technologies

MUSICASA Sound Drawers

MUSICASA Cassetti Sonori (Sound Drawers) is a project that stems from the need to offer online educational activity regarding music in a particular context such as the lockdown linked to the Covid-19 national health emergency. The Music and Multimedia Laboratory "Disaccordi” of the Artistic High School "G.C.Argan" in Rome, founded and coordinated by prof. Antonio Buldini, has in fact launched a completely online activity, with the aim of stimulating and developing the skills of listening and production. The experience is mainly aimed at upper secondary school students but, with appropriate remodeling, it can also be adopted in primary and lower secondary (middle) schools. The health crisis led to a multimedia workshop project, in pursuit of online activity that favoured sound expression and communication. The basic aims of the project were: 1. Creation and use of an online space for meetings, discussion and sharing of ideas/materials; 2. Testimonial, memory and introspective sound research; 3. Music processing with creation of a digital sound book. In this way, the children listened to and collected the sounds, noises, and soundscape of domestic environments; while also using the reflection and introspective research from the period they experienced in the implementation of musical activity, performances, recordings and audio editing. All these productions were then placed in "sound drawers", true containers arranged within a digital book, constituting a sort of archive of the particular space-time dimension they experienced and the educational activities carried out.

Competences
    Listening
    • Sound perception
    • Comprehension
    Production
    • Composition
    Reading and Writing
    • Use of unconventional analogic music notation
GOALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETENCES [...]
    Primary
    Listening
    • Learning to listen to oneself and to the others
    • Exploring, identifying and elaborating sound phenomena on the basis of quality, space and source
    Production
    • Exploring different expressive capacities of voice, musical objects and musical instruments
    • Improvising freely and creatively gradually learning to master techniques and materials
    Reading and Writing
    • Using analog and codified notation
    Lower secondary school
    Listening
    • Understands and evaluates events, materials, and musical works recognising their meanings, also in relation to his/her own musical experience and the different historical/sociological context.
    Production
    • Capacity to conceive and create music and multimedia messages, also though improvisation or collective elaboration processes, using also IT tools, in critical confrontation with models belonging to the musical heritage
    Reading and Writing
    • Integrating one’s own music experience with other knowledge and practices using appropriate codes and codification systems

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