Soundation

Soundation

This is a free way of making soundtracks for all things … comes with lots of sounds to mix in a variety of genres … worth a look if you are trying to get children to compose their own tracks rather than look around the Web for copyright-free ones to use.

Weird music

Incredibox is one of the weirdest sound generating apps I have ever come across … could be good fun then !!! (acknowledgement : @johnmayo)

Creative Commons Digital Reources

The Blogger ‘ thecleversheep’ has produced a list of digital resources to try to make some sense out of the problems associated with copyright and digital publishing.

This is what he says about them: In an attempt to bring some order to the chaos of Creative Commons licensing, I’ve created a list of resources that educators might share with students as a starting point for all manner of creative projects. To explain a bit about each resource, I’ve appended a 3 word summary to each CC tools/resource. The podcast explains how teachers might leverage these resources to teach students about the Creative Commons...

Rockfords Rock Opera Part 2

Just to let you know that Rockford’s Rock Opera Part 2 has just been released as an iPhone/iPod Touch App
(it’ll work on the iPad soon too – once Apple have released iOS4 for that device in November).
It costs £2.99, and you can get Part 2 here:  http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id396897529?mt=8

If you have an iPhone/iPod Touch just download it (you’ll need to be onWiFi) – it’s got lots of new stuff, videos etc – and, give it a review and rating, should you care to.

Part 1 is free of course: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id345554761?mt=8

Join in … you know you want to …

The World Science Festival has some superb stuff to offer but it was this little clip that took my attention … thanks to ‘lisibo’ for the tweet on this.

Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

My Children’s Classics

Classic FM have launched a vote to find the most popular piece of classical music amongst children:

Kids love classical music

This is the first nationwide poll to find out the UK’s favourite piece of classic music voted for by children. Voting closes on 26 October. How do you enter – Just listen to the clips with your child and vote for their favourite piece. Could it be Peter & the Wolf or maybe Debussy’s Children’s Corner? What can you win? Anyone who votes goes into a prize draw to win four fantastic free tickets for your family to see The Nutcracker, the breathtaking ballet, at The Coliseum in London. Voting closes on 26 October and the winner is to be announced on 31 October.

Music, music, music …

I notice that the Northumberland Ngfl site has some terrific new music resources … well worth a visit to listen to the instruments of the Virtual Orchestra !

While you are thinking about music and singing check out the free songs and nursery rhymes on the Stuff4Teaching site.

Sourcing copyright-free music

This is what the site says for itself:

Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.

Changes by Lewes New School

A video very well worth listening to  … feel the enthusiasm, feel the challenge, feel the optimism.

Music to go … ESP

From the very first ESP has been innovative about the way it developed music education in a digital world and now ESP’s popular range of music software is available online.This means that, following Web2.0 principles you can:
* Access ESP’s creative software anywhere and anytime
* Make your own musical classroom activities
* Integrate the software into your school’s learning platform
This is the part of a major new development for ESP with plans to offer an increasing range of musical tools, resources and content that can be accessed direct from ESP’s online site or can be integrated into tools such as Honeycomb and j2e as well as Learning platforms such as Frog and LearningBeck.
Have a look at a demo of Compose World and The Dums and if you want to register to use the full versions of Compose World, The Dums and the Dums International software then contact ESP at online@ESPMusic.co.uk