Soundscapes

Abstract

Technology presents multiple ways for students to see and interact with their worlds and the worlds of others. Creating, manipulating, organizing, mixing, and remixing sounds supports opportunities for students in all grades to speak through and with sound in order to promote social awareness. Listening, as a complex and developed skill, is more than the taking in of presented information. Rather, listening is essential to the co-construction of a mutual relationship. Bringing the same kinds of listening and responding skills articulated throughout this book to the compositional process, this chapter introduces a rationale for creating soundscapes and presents a unit documenting a soundscape project that can be implemented with students of all ages.