See the music Feel the music Rev. 2

Leeds Metropolitan University Innovation North – Faculty Of Information And Technology Reasons for the project BSc Creative Music and Sound Technology Needed to develop a music related project that in some way benefited the local community Helen gave a presentation on the aims of the Springschool and immediately caught my interest

Leeds Metropolitan University Innovation North – Faculty Of Information And Technology Preparation Visited St Johns School for the Deaf Explained to the pupils what my workshops would entail and the reasoning behind them Was a good way to gauge how interested pupils would be in the workshops

Leeds Metropolitan University Innovation North – Faculty Of Information And Technology Delivery See the music: A PC based game Playing a note brings up a short video clip of Indiana Jones The goal was to play all the clips in the right order by playing the right notes The right notes formed the pentatonic scale, which the students then tried to learn

Leeds Metropolitan University Innovation North – Faculty Of Information And Technology Delivery Feel the music A bass guitar hooked up to a vibrating pad Playing a note makes the pad vibrate Different notes create different vibrations Similar to how some hearing impaired people learn to play the piano

Leeds Metropolitan University Innovation North – Faculty Of Information And Technology Impact on me The most rewarding part of my whole time at university Watching the excitement of the pupils as a whole new world was opened up to them was truly heart-warming Now interested in pursuing a career in teaching