Kettering Science Academy
The final Echo Location workshop for Fermynwoods’ Sounding Out project was delivered with Year 2 students from Kettering Science Academy. Students began with a listening exercise to help start to consider sound and place. Students tried to discover by listening only, the locations and sources of selected sounds, from the local train station to a […]
Isebrook SEN Cognition and Learning College
As part of Fermynwoods Contemporary Art‘s Sounding Out project, students from Isebrook SEN Cognition and Learning College explored different locations on the map before adding their own sounds from inside their school and around the school grounds. Interesting recordings included the sounds of the school garden area, creaking doors, and the ambient noises of nearby […]
Kettering Music & Performing Arts Centre
Students from Kettering Music & Performing Arts Centre continued to populate the map following a workshop collecting recordings from in and around the centre. Unlike some other areas of the map, here students made use of the traditional musical sounds created by their peers at the centre. These were added along with distinctive, ambient and […]
Rowan Gate Primary School
The first Echo Location workshop for Sounding Out was delivered today with students from Rowan Gate Primary School. Rowan Gate is a school for pupils with a range of complex learning needs. Students listened to other areas of the Echo Location map before listening to the sounds in their own physical environment. As recorded sounds […]
Sounding Out
A new Kettering centred version of Kathy Hinde and Ed Holroyd’s Echo Location sound map has been commissioned by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art as part of their Sounding Out project. Sounding Out is part of The Mighty Creatives Young People’s Locally Based Arts and Culture Programme. For Sounding Out, Fermynwoods are working with students with and […]
Corby Walking Festival
We now have a new version of the Echo Location Sound map… created by Kathy Hinde and Ed Holroyd. There are some new features including the possibility to choose a ‘focus place’ which are based on where specific echo location soundmapping activities have taken place. Of course, you can add sounds anywhere and at any time, but we […]
Woodnewton Primary School
For the 2013 Corby Walking Festival, Fermynwoods commissioned artists Kathy Hinde and Aaron Head to work with walkers and members of the public to turn walked routes into instruments. Aaron Head worked with Woodnewton Primary School’s Year 5 students to launch the Corby specific area of the map. After warming up with some unusual listening […]