[microsound] re: sound activities with kids?

[Rob Danielson <type@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>hello folks!
>
>it went as well as i expected today.  after watching my daughter 
>play with the pie plates, i decided to just bring them and to forget 
>the ping pong balls...one thing at a time is certainly enough for a 
>two year old.
>
>i told them we were going to make a tin plate orchestra, and handed 
>out the tin plates.  i asked them what kind of a sound you could 
>make with the plates.  they all started banging on them.  i tried to 
>divide them into soft and loud sections, but they weren't focused 
>enough to do it, so i concentrated on trying to get a few other 
>sounds out of the plates...holding them with one finger and tapping, 
>crinkling the plates, rubbing on them, and dropping them from a 
>height.  that was it.

Thanks for sharing the progress report. A dance group here in 
Milwaukee, Wildspace, has a piece based on spinning 100 pie pans 
which the choreographer derrived from watching her daughter play with 
the same media.
Rob D.
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Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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