Exploring the life and works of Roberto Gerhard, the electronic music pioneer

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, music clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 music.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Monty Adkins and Dr Sam Gillies, electronic music researchers and composers at the University of Huddersfield, UK. They are investigating the life and works of Roberto Gerhard, a pioneer of electronic music.

• This resource also contains an interview with Monty and Sam and offers an insight into careers in music. If your students have questions for Monty and Sam, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Monty and Sam will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Monty and Sam’s research and challenges them to compose their own electronic music.

• The article and activity sheet are also available in Spanish through the weblink below.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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