Synaesthesia - a Secondary Music SOW linking Music and Art

This is an original Scheme of Work for Secondary Schools inspired by Tonesight, a system that uses music and motion sensing to make visual artworks accessible to the visually-impaired. It encourages students to consider the links between visual art and music before guiding them through a series of listening, performing and composing activities.

*There are 12 lessons of varied and engaging activities including listening exercises, performance tasks and tests followed by a project guiding the students through the steps to creating their own ‘Tonesight’ composition. *

Links to multiple resources including relevant and engaging Youtube videos are provioded throughout.

**This is particularly suitable for final year KS3 students or first-year GCSE Music students. **

By the end of this topic students should:

• understand some of the creative and philosophical links between music and image
• become more confident performing music together and as soloists
• develop the creative, technical and theoretical skills for composing original music for an artwork, preparing it for playback at an art exhibition as a means for helping a blind or visually-impaired person

*please note that Logic Pro X and Sibelius, or two similar MIDI and notation applications, are required to complete this SOW