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Combining sound and art

Contents

Sounds

Images

Tools to combine sounds and images

What else? 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.

Introduction

The BBC Sound Effects Archive 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

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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

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Permissions and ethical use

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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.

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One app that is useful for collecting your own set of sounds is Keezy (Apple only).

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Collecting your own sounds

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Finding images of art to use: creative commons search

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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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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.

Other sources of images

Public Domain Images For Artists - 25 Collections | MoMa UK

Research Guides: Finding Art Images: Open Access Images

WikiArt.org - Visual Art Encyclopedia

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)

Permissions and ethical use

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

Using your own images

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

ThingLink

GoogleSlides

GoogleSlides,
Keynote (Apple) or PowerPoint(Microsoft)

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

BookCreator

with added sound

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'.

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'.