School of Noise - Exploring Sound

The School of Noise delivers practical workshops exploring music and the science of sound. With a mix of demonstrations and hands-on use of equipment, our activities provide a creative and educational event to support the curriculum, STEM and enrichment learning.
 

“Thank you for a great day. The children came back from your sessions extremely enthused having learnt a great deal”

Childeric Primary School

"The School of Noise is one of those ideas that you just know is right. Bringing back a sense of wonder and accessibility to music-making. Music is organised noise and organising noise is fun!” Jarvis Cocker
 

“Thanks for today, kids absolutely loved it and had a blast. A lot of the teachers were jealous that they didn't get to come and play.”
St Dominic’s Primary School 
 

We have worked with children and young people in a wide variety of locations including schools, colleges, BBC, BAFTA, Barbican and Southbank Centre, Royal Institution, Museum of Science and Industry, Cheltenham Science Festival, V&A Museum of Childhood, British Library, Alexandra Palace, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and visited China, Spain, Oman, UAE, Czech Republic and the Netherlands.

• Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating.

• Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear.

• Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it.

• Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.

• Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

• Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds.

• Frequencies of sound waves, measured in hertz (Hz); echoes, reflection and absorption of sound.

• Sound needs a medium to travel, the speed of sound in air, in water, in solids.

• Sound produced by vibrations of objects, in loudspeakers, detected by their effects on microphone diaphragm and the ear drum; sound waves are longitudinal.

• The auditory range of humans and animals.

•  Listen with attention to detail.

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