Resonate - The Beatles SoundShapes Project
Music Tech Training Inspired by The Beatles
Resonate Music, Liverpool's school music support organisation, presents a new and innovative educational programme for young people, rooted in the Beatles' musical and cultural legacy, providing training in:
using DAW's for creative music exploration;
recording and manipulating found sounds to create place-based soundscapes;
Setting up and using PA systems for live music performance
Join us to shape the future of music education through technological innovation!
Resonate Beatles Music Tech Project Offerings
Sound Science & Introduction to Studio Tech
Inspired by the Beatles song 'Tomorrow Never Knows' -
which combined experimental use of innovative studio techniques with trance-like beats and transcendent lyrics.
Term One introduces students to:
Digital Audio Workstations for recording professional layered music tracks;
Creative editing and manipulation of sounds;
The science of sound; vibrations, and how they can form visual patterns (cymatics);
Using 360-degree video cameras to create experimental films in Virtual Reality
Soundwalks & Place-based Audio-Visual artworks
Inspired by the Beatles song 'Penny Lane' -
which celebrates and mythologizes scenes of everyday life in a suburban street, with a sense of whimsical nostalgia.
In Term Two, students will:
take handheld audio and 360-degree video recorders to record aspects of their everyday lives;
Edit and manipulate their recordings to create experimental story-telling video artworks;
Have their work installed in an online gallery, accessible through QR scanning codes placed in their community environments.
Setting Up and Using Live PA Systems
Inspired by the Beatles song 'Within You Without You' -
which fuses Indian classical music with lyrics that philosophically reflect on inner growth and unity, within a transcendent pop experience
Term Three shows students how to:
set up and manage Live stage PA systems, for Indian musicians to perform at concerts for the students' schools;
Incorporate visual elements - video and projections - into the performances;
Record the performances and edit the recordings in a variety of creative mix and remix formats
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Team
Mark Jones
Project Manager
Mark Jones is a music teacher, performer and song writer based in Liverpool. He is passionate about helping young people in disadvantaged situations to reach their full potential in music and creative arts.
Mary Hennessy
Creative Director
Mary Hennessy is a musician and creative artist with a passionate interest in exploring creativity in music-making with young people.
Chelsea Slater
Project Co-Manager
Chelsea is a director of InnovateHer, an organisation dedicated to upskilling and training girls to provide them with the skills and confidence needed to shape their own careers in the tech industries of the future.
Stephen Oates
Online Tech training manager
Steve is director of Score Creative Ltd, an organisation delivering bespoke music education and development projects alongside Music Hubs, cultural organisations, Schools and youth services since 2008. Score Creative supports young people’s career pathways into music and the creative arts
Andy Dockerty
PA & Audio-Visual Tech consultant
Andy is Managing director of AdLib Audio, one of the UK's most successful PA and audio-visual tech companies.
Mike Moran
Liverpool Hope University representative
Mike leads much of the Sound Tech and Music teaching at Liverpool Hope University, and is providing work placements for many of his students who will be teaching and mentoring on our project
Mel Burton
Director of Sound Hub
Mel leads the Merseyside Sound Hub, providing resources and support for music-making across the region.
Alok Nayak
Director of Milap
Milap promotes Indian Music and Creative Arts across the UK
Dr Mat Flynn
University of Liverpool Senior Lecturer
Mat is Senior Lecturer in Music Industries, Director of the Institute of Popular Music & Project Co-Lead for Musicfutures at the University of Liverpool
Elizabeth Alker
Media Consultant
Elizabeth joined the BBC as a researcher in 2005 and became a reporter and presenter for Radio 6 Music. She is the author of a book about the crossovers between poular and orchestral music genres, and has interviewed Sir Paul McCartney about the experimental music interests he brought to the Beatles music.
Dr Dori Howard
Senior Music Lecturer at LIPA and other universities.
Dori is a popular music researcher and writer. She is one of fewer than 100 people in the world to hold an MA in the Beatles, Popular Music and Society, and she has a PhD in Popular Music. Her key research interests are the Beatles and Liverpool, genre studies, and popular music ethnography. More recently, her research focuses on gender and embodiment in popular music.
National Museums Liverpool and The Beatles Story
Beatles Story and other music-focused museums
Several museums around Liverpool are dedicated to the Beatles and their legacy. The Beatles Story is an example of one such musuem that provides a strong educational focus for school children to access resources about the Beatles role in the development of popular culture.
Our Partner Organisations
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