We present the Speaker Park project, and some of the central ideas and technology behind it, and  invite the students to contribute to a composition by recording their own sounds. Recording is done in groups - one group with a field recorder, and one in the classroom.

The first half of this workshop takes place in the classroom, and also involves some field recording in and around the school.

Here we cover a brief history of music technology, and discuss how the way people listen to and engage with music has evolved in time with technological developments. This includes some slides and video, as well as listening to and discussing some of the students favourite music.

The second part of the workshop takes place in the Speaker Park venue, with the full installation ready. Here the students can listen to finished compositions, and experiment with positioning, panning and mixing techniques developed specifically for Speaker Park. These techniques make it relatively intuitive to mix and pan sound sources within the installation, which is not limited to one channel per voice.