Combining sound and art (EN)

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Contents <a href="bookcreator://page/fekA-LIgTba4e6WfXMuCSA">Sounds</a> <a href="bookcreator://page/r1ovlrtBQym4ueMIXSXhBg">Images</a> <a href="bookcreator://page/Z_ceTsudTY-nqV-wAaBNiQ">Tools</a> to combine sounds and images <a href="bookcreator://page/ev6gY3T5TVeJjhqpz_JuIg">What else?</a> ideas to go further

This book contains some tips and ideas about using sound and speech in combination with art viewing and making. Once you've learned how to use technology apps and tools to do this there is huge potential to use it to engage learners and give them additional ways to be creative when making art.

Works of art from <a href="https://www.wikiart.org/">WikiArt Visual Art Encyclopaedia</a> Georges Seurat (1886) A Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte. Laura Knight (1938) Epsom Downs. Henri Rousseau (1891) Tiger in a Tropical Storm (surprised!). Yayoi Kusama (1988) Waves on the Hudson River. Claude Monet (1876) Saint-Lazare Station, exterior. Annie Albers (1978) Double Impression IV. Vincent Van Gogh (1889) The Starry Night. Bridget Riley (1964) Loss.

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Jean Edwards Senior Lecturer, University of Northampton jean.edwards@northampton.ac.uk Twitter: @Jean Ed70 Instagram: @70jeanne

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There are now many sources of images that can be downloaded or linked to use in education or for non-commercial purposes. Many galleries and museums make it clear which images can be used. The links below are useful places to start. There might also be images that a school has the rights to use because they are part of a published resource to support learning that the school has bought into.

Public Domain Images For Artists - 25 Collections | MoMa UK

Research Guides: Finding Art Images: Open Access Images

WikiArt.org - Visual Art Encyclopedia

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Laura Knight, Epsom Downs by Jean Edwards

I've added environmental sounds from the BBC sound effects archive to this painting using ThingLink. This is easy to share with other people. The ThingLink can be set to 'public' or 'unlisted'.

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I listened to sounds outside for five minutes. As I noticed sounds I responded to them by making marks with a pencil.

Day 5 task of the The Big Draw's #aert_elements, led by artist Aimee Laborne (@a.laborne on Instagram)

I've added sounds to this painting in BookCreator and made the speaker icons invisible so that the viewer can explore and be surprised by the sounds.

There are a number of different tools that can be used to combine sound and images and share the results. It will depend on what you have available to you, what your pupils are familiar with and what works best with the other technology tools you use.

Tools to use to combine sound and images and share the results.

ThingLink for teachers and schools — ThingLink

GoogleSlides

GoogleSlides, Keynote (Apple) or PowerPoint(Microsoft)

Book Creator - bring creativity to your classroom - Book Creator app

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There are lots of ways we can use sound and image together in art. Adding sound as a way of exploring the "world" of the piece of art is one way, using our own voices to record a guided tour of a piece of art is another. Pupils themselves can respond to sounds with their own art making, create sounds capes for others to respond and create their own art that is both visual and aural in nature. 

What else can we do with these tools and ideas?

Adult: makes a guided tour of a piece of art Child: chooses their own piece of art and makes a guided tour for another child

Adult: chooses a collection of twenty sounds Child: chooses five sounds from the collection to use along with a piece of art they have made / will make

Child: makes a piece of art to represent a place using only recorded sounds and collected objects to evoke the feel of the location

The <a href="https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/">BBC Sound Effects Archive</a> is a useful source of sound clips. Each sound clip can be downloaded as a wav or mp3 file or shared using a link, depending on what works best for your purpose.

BBC Sound Effects

Finding recorded sounds to use

You can search for sound clips and link to or download them. Sound clips can be favourited so you can easily find the ones you chose. Going further you can create a group of sounds to use together in 'mixer mode' and this group of sounds can be played, shared or downloaded.

Choosing and saving sounds to use

Sound clips from the BBC Sound Effects Archive can be used for non-commercial purposes and formal educational purposes. There is more information about this at the link below.

BBC Sound Effects terms of use

Permissions and ethical use

It is quite straightforward to record your own sounds on built in or downloaded apps on mobile devices. This allows you or pupils the opportunity to use sounds from your own environment or create your own sounds. 

One app that is useful for collecting your own set of sounds is <a href="https://learningworksforkids.com/apps/keezy/">Keezy</a> (Apple only).

Collecting your own sounds

As with sound clips many images are available to us for non-commercial use through Creative Commons. This means that we can use them in educational activity in the classroom, on academic websites and in lectures.

Copyright and permissions (British Museum)

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We can also add sound effects or audio of speech to photos or scans of physical or digital art that children have made themselves.

Laura Knight

Here's a video demonstration of how to put together sound effects and an image in Google Slides. To do this I had <a href="https://www.wikiart.org/en/laura-knight/epsom-downs-1938">WikiArt</a>, <a href="https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=fairground">BBC Sound Effects</a>, Google Drive and Google Slides open on my laptop.

Adding audio to a Google Slide - MediaSpace Northampton

Finding images of art to use: creative commons search

Using a Creative Commons search in Google Images will allow you to find images of art to choose from that can be used in education. When you are in Google Images choose 'Tools' then change 'Usage Rights' to 'Creative Commons' to set this search up.

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I've added environmental sounds from the BBC sound effects archive to this painting using Google Slides. This is most easy to share with other people. The slide and all the sounds are set to 'anyone with the link can view'.

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