NATURE can inspire people to express their CREATIVITY.

Our new central idea for Year 3:

“Nature can inspire people to express their creativity.”

Check out these two videos:

1. How Nature Inspires Music – This short film explores how nature and a love of the outdoors influenced the composer in writing his music.

2. Music From Nature – This video shows how the composer created his music using things you can find from nature.

3. Graphic Symbols

How would you describe the sounds that you see in the pictures?

CRASH…………………..SPLAT…………………..???

Graphic symbols_Page_1Graphic symbols_Page_2

 

 

Which sounds from nature would you link to these sounds that you see?

 

 

 

Which Musical instruments would you play to create the sounds that you see?

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NFOaUTbhjM

What can you hear?
How would you draw the sound?
Which Instruments can you use to make the sounds?

Describe sound

COMPOSING music using Garage Band

Year 3 students writing their own unique stories on paper…

writing our own story

writing our story 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…and then COMPOSING the music for their stories using the iPad’s Garage Band app.

garage band


Story and song now finished!!! Wow!! Now time to reflect on what you did

Questions to be thinking about for your reflection

Composers choose and organize sounds to communicate ideas and moods

Name of my Song

Instruments/Loops used

Does the music reflect my story?

What did I need to change?

How did my audience respond to my music?