South Downs Songbook
Project Overview
Through contemporary songs and compositions, we're celebrating the South Downs as a place that inspires world leading music-making, writing, painting and photography
How:
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live tour of newly commissioned songs and compositions by leading UK composers and student composers 20-30 June 2022
BOOK FREE LIVE EVENT TICKETS HERE -
live composition workshops and performances Feb-June 2022
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working in schools and colleges across East Sussex and Brighton & Hove
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four new five-minute songs for the Orchestra of Sound and Light
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by four established UK composers inspired by the South Downs:
Evelyn Ficarra, Ed Hughes, Rowland Sutherland, Shirley J Thompson -
open access digital resources including downloadable sound samples, photos, poems, paintings & prints, all inspired by the South Downs
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online composer interviews and how tos (coming soon)
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an expanding online songbook
Meet the Project Team
Interviews with our four professional composers will be uploaded in May 2022
Meet the Musicians and their instruments:
5-minute how-to guides
Commission and Getting Started (coming soon)
to include:
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How to use this website
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Stimuli materials (films, artwork, poems, sound samples)
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Getting Started (to include: choosing your medium, selecting a stimuli etc.)
Developing your composition and getting unstuck! (coming soon)
Interviews by our composers arranged by topic:
Choosing a specific stimulus for your piece
Getting started
How music technology is used
Particular music techniques and ideas
Developing your composition
Finishing a composition
FREE DIGITAL RESOURCES PACK: (coming soon)
Sign up here to reserve your pack.
Downloadable Sound Samples for students to use in their compositions.
Recorded live in the South Downs National Park.
Sound Samples created and curated by film/games composer Peter Michael Davison.
Our Partners and Funders
Project funding from Arts Council England
Partner Schools and Colleges:
BHASVIC, Brighton
East Sussex Academy of Music, Lewes
Hastings Academy, Hastings
Partner Organisations:
South Downs National Park Authority
