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Announcing SoundJunction

New opportunities

SoundJunction will open up new opportunities for discovering, exploring and creating music. From the project website or CD-Rom, you can navigate deep into musical worlds, stepping into the music itself to hear how it comes together, how it is inspired, is built and evolves. You can interact with real sounds and musicians, learning how to make music yourself, forging connections between different cultures and branching out into new kinds of music.

SoundJunction is a new Associated Board project, commissioned by Culture Online, part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It will be a compelling resource for discovering music and inspiring musical creativity – introducing a range of new musical experiences and promoting a deeper and broader appreciation of different musical genres and the relationships between them. Rich in multimedia content, the project will enable you to engage with real musicians performing fascinating musical works. You can take the elements of their performances, adapt and edit them, to make up new arrangements or totally new compositions.

Repertoire

The primary musical repertoire for SoundJunction will be three new pieces, specially commissioned from composers working within the fields of jazz and contemporary urban music, African, and Western classical music. SoundJunction will present a broad, highly accessible, multi-stranded exploration of each piece with opportunities to listen, discover, interact, create and compose. Focussing on these pieces most thoroughly, SoundJunction will explore their relations with several other related works. By adopting a diverse and thorough approach to a select repertoire, the project will aim to impart a breadth and depth of understanding that can be further applied to music elsewhere.

The audience

SoundJunction is aimed primarily at young people aged 13 to 18 but will also appeal to adults of all ages and to younger children. Within this audience will be those that have no musical education or experience, beyond listening to music, and those who already have several years of training.

The project has particular relevance to music at National Curriculum Key Stage 3, GCSE and A level, and the SoundJunction CD-Rom will be sent free of charge to all schools in England covering these age groups. It will also be distributed to UK Music Services, providing access to instrumental and school music teachers, and to community music organisations.

Outreach

During project development and dissemination the Associated Board will also be working with musical outreach initiatives and organisations, such as the Drake Music Project, to bring new experiences to otherwise hard-to-reach or disadvantaged audiences and those who have few music-making opportunities.

Find out more

SoundJunction is scheduled to go live in 2005. For further information about the project, email us or telephone 020 7467 8852.