Projects

With various awards from the Arts Council and the National Lottery, Acoustic Arts have coordinated music projects with playgroups, schools, colleges, youth centres, hospitals, prisons and environmental and arts organisations across the U.K. Past projects include;

‘Blow Your Own Trumpet’ with Bristol School of Samba, 2000. A group of teenagers worked with professional craftsmen over ten weeks to build musical instruments from recycled materials. They then performed their own compositions at a BBC Music Live concert in front of 2000 people.

‘All Join in’ with Children’s Playlink and South Gloucestershire Council, 2003-4. In this project, involving over 400 pre-school children, Acoustic Arts recruited local and international artists to showcase a wide variety of musical styles and instruments, and to provide specialist training for playgroup leaders.

‘5x5x5’ with WOMAD and Youth Music, 2005. Inspired by the Reggio Emilia early years educational model in N. Italy, this research project brought together groups of young children, some with profound learning difficulties, to explore art and sound in a series of self-directed sessions.

‘Growing Music: Rhythms for Life’ with WOMAD and RIO, 2008–9. Acoustic Arts have played a central role in designing and delivering this pioneering project which explores the global links between music, culture, plants and climate. Working with a number of schools in Cornwall, the international team is helping children to grow and perform on their own musical instruments.