A source of inspiration...

In developing our ideas for this project, we were lucky enough to spend the morning with Dr Sara Collins. Sara is a Biologist and Forest School Practitoner and provided us with lots of brilliant ideas and showed us different recycled materials that we could incorporate into our trail!

For more about Sara's work please visit her website at: www.eco-urbanranger.co.uk 

Website Links...

While researching for this project, different websites have been used as a source of inspiration for possible materials, ways of constructing instruments and objects which make sounds and how others have used intruments made from recycled materials with children to promote enjoyment of music and give a context for first hand reusing and recycling.

 

Recycle This:

http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/about

This website fetures ideas for objects that can be reused and recycled and different ways of using them. Items range from food and garden objects to toys and technology.

 

Bash The Trash:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jbertles/

This website is about a group in america that use recycled items to make sound and music. They put on performances and workshops around america and the website features ideas for making intruments aswell and pictures and videos of what they have made and performed with.

 

Video Links...

Recycled Percussion - America's Got Talent:

These video links are of a junk rock act that have been performing together since 1995 and came third in America's got Talent 2009. They make music from a variety of recycled items accompanied by backing music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWYB2smAu0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMpQ-4YO-MI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sECPmFtAJQ0

 

How To Videos:

How to make a didgerido - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21tze9Y6dmk

How to make an Oboe - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V_hWBRZKuk

How to make a Kazoo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3zb3hzKYms&feature=relmfu

How to make a Tom Tom Drum - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOa_4ON8lxc&feature=relmfu

 

(Disclaimer.Compton Up Marden Music Trail Makers are not responsible for the content of any of these links.)