ScrapArtsMusic
Grades K-12
Excite your senses with intricate rhythms, raw energy, athletic choreography and the greenest—and most inventive—reuse of materials on stage today. Fashioned from industrial scrap and offbeat materials ranging from accordion parts to artillery shells, ScrapArtsMusic’s one-of-a-kind instruments are as visually striking as their music is sonically riveting. This is a highly physical, wildly theatrical and thoroughly entertaining taste of the musical vanguard rooted in street performance, jazz and world music traditions.
California Content Standards easily applied in your classroom:
- K.SC.EA.3.c: Students know how to identify resources from Earth that are used in everyday life and understand that many resources can be conserved.
- 2.SC.PH.1.g: Students know sound is made by vibrating objects and can be described by its pitch and volume.
- K-12.AR.MU.3.0: Understanding the historical contributions and cultural dimensions of music.
LESSON PLAN IDEA: Students create percussive composition using body parts or found items for instruments as a class or in small groups.
Visit the artist's website at www.scrapartsmusic.com.
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Instrument Building: Music & the Science of Sound
INCLUDES THREE VISITS TO YOUR CLASSROOM!
Grades 4-5
Working with local teacher and musician Andrew DeVeny, students will explore the science of sound and rhythm while designing and building a class-created instrument from everyday scrap materials. Students will work together to construct their instrument and examine how different materials carry, magnify and suppress sound according to their scientific properties. The project will culminate in a digital recording of an original ensemble piece and each class will receive a CD of the recording.
California Content Standards
- 4.MU.LI.1.4: Describe music according to its elements, using the terminology of music.
- 5.MU.CR.2.3: Compose, improvise, and perform basic rhythmic, melodic, and chordal patterns independently on classroom instruments.