Sound

About sound

Teacher and pupils playing musical instruments

The context builds the storyline through our ability to make sound, sound as a tool of communication, for example through talk or by using music to convey a message. It progresses on to sound as a tool of communication at a distance and our ability to manipulate sound.

Touch the Sound video

Short clip from a documentary featuring Scottish percussionist and composer Evelyn Glennie who lost nearly all of her hearing by age 12.