De Montfort University and Onassis Stegi ran a series of workshops on project themes of soundscape, sound-based music and education. 

By working to bring together the worlds of sound-based music and hacking, we aim to demonstrate to teachers and students the value and user-friendliness of the new music creation, allowing ideas to be taken forward into community and educational settings without the need for additional support. Cross-curricular work with art, design technology and other subject areas is possible.  

In addition to the workshops, toolkits were created in order to further disseminate the good practices and techniques learned during the workshops to more people interested in sound-based composition:

"Sound-based Creativity in Schools"
Created by Duncan Chapman and David Holland, De Montfort University Leicester
"This document provides an outline for 3 workshops to be used in schools for introducing pupils to sound-based creativity. They are each designed for 1-hour lessons, but it is intended that they should be adaptable for different circumstances, meaning that exercises can be reduced or extended depending on the time available."
Click here to view and download the toolkit

"Sound-based Creativity in the Community"
Created by Duncan Chapman and David Holland, De Montfort University Leicester
"This document provides an outline for 3 workshops that can be used in community settings for introducing participants to sound-based creativity. They are each designed as 1-hour workshops, but it is intended that they should be adaptable for different circumstances. Therefore, exercises can be reduced, extended or used as stand alone activities depending on the time available."
Click here to view and download the toolkit

"Composing Sounds Through Digital Apps"
Created by Thalia Ioannidou, Michalis Moschutis, Dimitris Patsaros, Vassilis Tzavaras, supported by Onassis Stegi
"This educational material is addressed to teachers who want to discover sound with their students, to produce recordings inside and outside the classroom and to compose music with digital tools. (...)By approaching sound and music interdisciplinary, we suggest a series of actions that do not require knowledge of music. Artistic discovery is our main intention, with the ultimate goal of enhancing expression and communication, through engaging in new artistic pursuits and forms of expression."
Click here to view and download the toolkit (in English)
Click here to view and download the toolkit (in Greek)

List of workshops:

Workshops in the UK-run by De Montfort University
Summer 2017

Selected schools:
Moat Community College, Leicester
>Beacon Academy, Loughborough
>De Lisle College, Loughborough
>Westwood Academy, Coventry

Community workshops:
Sydni Centre, Leamington Spa
Warwick Arts Centre (Warwick University)

Explore the updates about “Sound-based Creativity in Schools” workshops HERE.

Click here and here to find examples of their work. 

Workshops in Greece-run by Onassis Stegi

Teachers training workshop: Create your own composition using digital tools
9-10 December 2018
Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece
For secondary school teachers

In the workshop for teachers, Duncan Chapman and Dave Holland from the De Montfort University gave a two-day workshop for teachers and educators which revolved around three key axes: 1) how to listen to sounds, 2) how to record sounds, and 3) how to compose with the recorded sounds. The participants also learned how to use the "Compose with Sounds" software package, and took away material at the end of the workshop which should be useful for their own teaching.

Read more here.

Compose with Sounds using digital apps
January –April 2019
In schools of Athens, Greece
For middle and high school students

Through a series of workshops in schools, the students learned how to use plain, everyday sounds and recordings to turn them into a composition with the help of the software programme “Compose with Sounds”.  At the end of the programme the students presented their compositions in a group showing.

Selected schools:
>2nd High School of Intercultural Education, Athens
>13th Junior High School of Kallithea, Athens

Workshop coordinators: Thalia Ioannidou (musician/sound artist), Michalis Moschutis (musician), Dimitris Patsaros (music producer and sound designer), and Vasilis Tzavaras (musician).

The final presentation of the compositions took place on Tuesday, 16 of April 2019 at Onassis Stegi. 

Find out more here. 

Composing sounds through digital apps.
January – March 2020
In schools of Attica, Athens, Greece
For middle and high school students

Through a series of workshops in schools, the students learned the meaning of field recording and how useful it is to record surrounding sounds. They also learned how to create compositions using the sounds they have collected and compiling them on “Compose with Sounds” (an open-source software created in the framework of “Interfaces”).

Find out more here.