‘Seeing Sound’ – Tuesday March 7th 2017
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Photograph or draw your favourite sound
(with bonus points for capturing audio of the sound)

Credit:

Today’s prompt comes from the Digital Cultures Initiative (DCI) at NUI Galway. This a forum intended to bring together all those interested in researching, supporting and creating forms of “digital culture” at NUI Galway. This includes digital arts, humanities and media researchers, information and data science specialists, experts in digital teaching and learning, creative practitioners, archivists, and interested stakeholders from creative, heritage and industrial communities beyond the University.
Follow @dci_nuig on Twitter.

Image credit: “The Scream” by Barney Moss is licensed under CC BY 2.0

How to participate:

Share your interpretation of the DCI’s challenge with us, not forgetting to tag #campuscreate in your post:

If you prefer, draw, photograph, paint, or write your interpretation (not forgetting to tag #campuscreate in your post) and share with us at:

Prompt 1 ‘Water’ – 1st Day of Spring
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Today is the first day of Spring

It is the Festival of Imbolc, and is known as Lá Fhéile Bríde or St Brigit’s day

This festival marked the beginning of spring and has been celebrated since ancient times. Visiting water sources, such as holy wells was a long held tradition on this day, to pray for good health

How about a short verse, or image, or sound recording about ‘Water’ in honour of the first day of Spring?

 

Don’t forget to use the hashtag #waterspark when sharing your contributions

Resources:

Visualise a verse (notegraphy.com)

Record, edit & upload sound (audioboom.com)

Find out more about Imbolc from Wikipedia and also through Brigits Garden in Rosscahill, Co. Galway

How to participate
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #waterspark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

Prompt 4 -‘Sound’ – Theme Song
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Do you have a theme song? If so, what is that song? Is it just one, or do you have multiple songs for different purposes? Create an inspirational poster with favourite lyrics from your theme song or sing the song and record an audio file.

 

Resources:

 

Want to participate?

Share your response with us online

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Prompt 3 ‘Sound’ – Soundscape
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Here is a mesmerising video of birds murmuring over Lackagh in Co. Galway, almost two years ago today. Close your eyes and listen to the sounds you hear  – the swish of the birds, the air, a passing tractor, a dog barking. These noises combine to make our soundscapes. What is your soundscape?

 

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Your Challenge: Map the sounds you hear today

Resources to help

How to make a sound map:

a) Find a comfortable spot to sit.
b) Mark an “X ” in the centre of a piece of paper which contains a circle about the same size as a CD . This shows your relative location on the map.
c) Close your eyes and listen for at least one minute. Listen for sounds from animals, birds, people, machinery  and other human activities.
d) Keep listening, but now draw pictures or symbols on the map representing all the sounds you hear, and where they are coming from. It is also possible to reflect the relative distances of the sounds by using the periphery of the page as a scale. Sounds that seem close should be near the ‘X’, whereas distant sounds should be represented on the outside of the page.

Source: http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Schools/Fieldwork+and+local+learning/Fieldwork+techniques/Fieldwork+technology/Soundscapes.htm

Additional Resources:

Don’t like this hand drawn approach? Keep it digital and draw your map or use a mind mapping tool (MindMeister or Simpleminds)

Want to participate?

Share your response with us online

Post your response to today’s daily prompt to @campuscreate on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Vine, or Google+ and be sure to include the hashtag #soundspark

Not on social media?

Email or Drop it to us (password=mycreate), and we’ll publish it for you