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Sound Junction
1 Feb 2008
Bringing together the ideas, opinions, and contributions of around 250 young people, music workshop leaders, teachers, musicians, composers, remix artists and writers sounds like an impossible task, but it’s exactly is what the people behind SoundJunction have done, winning seven awards in the process. The result is a new resource exploring how music works, offering tips from professional musicians, and allowing users to create or remix music using online interactive music tools.
The site is designed primarily for young people aged 13-18, and focuses on music-learning by encouraging listening, interaction, and music-making. It combines specially produced online music tools with new repertoire commissioned from composers and remix artists from rock to classical, jazz to African, drum & bass to fusion. In addition, the site features over 300 musical works from around the world and videos of over 40 different instruments.
If you’re surfing the net from your bedroom, you can use the website to learn how to play the West African udu drums, watch how leading remixers create music, learn about music theory, or share compositions you make on the site with friends, all by experimenting with interactive music tools. Or if you’re with a group in a workshop or lesson, you can piece together your own structured learning pathways, or ‘learning trails’, from over 200 hours of audio, video and interactive experiences. So if you’re under 18 and received a new instrument for Christmas, SoundJunction’s website is a great place to start exploring, discovering, and creating.
SoundJunction is produced by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and commissioned by Culture Online, part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The SoundJunction team keen to make contact with people using the site in education.
For more information, visit www.soundjunction.org or contact SoundJunction@abrsm.ac.uk
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