Earlier this month we held the first in a series of three workshops with year 3 pupils from St. James' Primary School in Millom. During a visit to the nearby Millom Folk Museum, the children were asked to choose one area of the museum and to use their imaginations to document sounds produced by objects from the collection, ranging from farming machinery, and iron ore mining tools to the sound of a grocer's till. This was followed by a classroom session introducing the concept of soundscapes and sharing our findings in a recorded discussion. Further workshops will take place in September and will involve the children recreating the sounds of local industry using contact microphones and spoken word, with the results to be included as part of the completed tour.
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