Image source: Lindsay Tucker
Students performances of their soundscapes could take many forms. Here as some possible ideas.
A soundscape choir
Students perform a range of soundscape ideas to an audience, emulating the example from the choir Perpetuum Jazzile. Presents a different approach
A walkthrough environment
Audience walks through the sound art experience, students will create the sound live and audience will be lead through while blindfolded. Create an experience for the audience where the sensation of being in the environment is reinforced by the disorientation of being blindfolded.
An installation
Students works are recorded separately and then made into a collage of sound that the audience engages with. Possibly the clearest link to the idea of "sound art", where the very performance of the art is an sculptural installation. Furthermore the notion of a "native bush" environment coming out of technology poses some interesting questions.
A silent movie soundtrack
Students use their soundscape to soundtrack a silent movie of a location, recording sounds on garageband/imovie and layering the sound to create the required effect. Nice link to foley work on films where professionals aim to recreate sounds as a profession.
Storytime
One student reads a picture book to audience, while the class creates a soundtrack related to the picture book.
Set to visuals
Have previously discussed students performing to a silent movie, however this doesn't have to be the only option. Students could make a slideshow of images from nature and soundtrack those images. Possibilities with recorded music also include the possiblity for students to create rhythms from their sound samples by looping the sound on software such as Garageband.
Dance and sound art
Students choreograph a dance to the soundscape. Students could choreograph, in the example of the native bush context, a piwakawaka dance where the soundscape relates to the dance - branches could shake as the piwakawaka follows a tramper walking through the bush, the footsteps created by pebbles, and the ambient sound of the bush created by a range of created instruments, body percussion and vocalisations.
