Our Art Station allows students to build their own instruments during Music Week. Each student has the opportunity to become an instrument maker and build their own shaker, rainstick or other instrument – with results that sound great!
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Make a Wish
Make a Wish is an interactive sound installation created for the Music Week 2015 at Shanghai United International School, Pudong Campus, IS Primary Department in February 2015.
Students approach a recording interface – a white circle on the outside of a big black box – and record a wish into a microphone hidden behind it. A computer application realized in the programming environment MAX MSP triggers four independent, simultaneously working playback engines that randomly choose a recording and play it back on either the left, the right or on both speakers at randomly timed intervals. The result is a dynamic, ever changing sound collage of the recorded wishes.
Prior to recording, students spend time composing their wishes. In making a wish for someone else, they explore the notion of selflessness and “walk” along the continuum between personal desire and vital needs of others. Make a Wish was first exhibited in February 2015, after the Western and before Chinese New Year and therefore a time when Western and Chinese cultures traditionally make wishes.