Harmonizing Creativity and Education
Explorations in sound, music and voice
Creative Teaching and Learning for a brighter educational future
VisibleMusic is a South Wales-based educational consultancy that provides guidance, experience and classroom-based creative exploration in:
MUSIC AND SOUND TECHNOLOGY
APPROACHES TO CREATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING
MUSIC AND SOUND TECHNOLOGY
VisibleMusic delivers professional educational experience in:
Music composition, songwriting and recording
Sound mixing and production
Podcasting, radio and the spoken word
A range of innovative music/sound tech applications which support engaging cross-curricular activity
CREATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING
Visible Music provides professional expertise, advice and consultancy in:
Embedding Creative Teaching and Learning approaches in schools and colleges
How to boost learner engagement, confidence and creativity
Developing bespoke Creative Toolkits which allow teachers to explore new and inspiring classroom practice
WHO DO WE WORK WITH?
Teachers, pupils and senior leadership in Primary and Secondary Schools
Tutors, students and management in Further Education
SEND/ASN/ALN settings
Homeschooling Parents and Carers
Private clients
HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
Exciting workshops based around music creation, recording, composition, spoken word production, sound design
Engaging new inroads into oracy, literacy and Curriculum for Wales
Teacher Training
Creative Project Management
Music provision for homeschooling parents / carers
Development of ‘Creative Toolkits’ and other resources to enhance your implementation of creative teaching and learning approaches
Arts Award accredited qualifications
VisibleMusic can bring mobile music technology to any setting, and/or work with existing tech on site. Many projects revolve around getting a school up to speed on using the tech it already has, commonly amazing free platforms like GarageBand and Bandlab.
SERVICES
An introduction to some of the most popular VM activities - all tailorable to different situations and requirements. Click to find out more.
VM's super-popular workshops based on the FREE iOS app GarageBand. Delivered in over 30 South Wales Primary schools to date, as well as Secondary, FE and SEND settings.
Secondary-focused immersive music songwriting/production activities. Work collaboratively to build a song from the ground up - arrangement, lyrics, recording and production, resulting in a pro-sounding mix of a finished song.
Sound is an underexplored creative resource with huge learning potential. Record and edit voices, and use sound effects to create imaginative radio/podcast dramas. Fantastic for oracy and literacy.
VM provides straightforward effective teacher training in a range of music technology platforms for the classroom, as well as templates, toolkits and instructional videos for implementation.
Music provision for homeschoolers can be tricky, but VM can set YOU up to be able to deliver it yourself. GarageBand and Bandlab are free music tech solutions which open up a world of possibility and experience for homeschooled learners.
Even the most experienced and proficient musicians can still find getting into recording and production daunting. Where do you start? What do you need? VM delivers bespoke online / in-person training for getting started quickly.
“Play is the primary technology of learning"
TESTIMONIALS
Not only I have I developed my knowledge and skills in this area of learning, but all the children have developed amazing memorable skills.
Mrs Charles, Troedyrhiw Primary
The children absolutely loved the lessons and were fully engaged every time you came to deliver and teach them new skills. They have learnt and grown in confidence
Mrs Bibby – Gwaunfarren Primary
My name is Jax from XXX Primary School and I would like to say thank you for teaching us garage band as I did not even know that it was exciting for children. I even thought this app was for adults for work but instead this app is for kids and adults to learn the rhythm of music. It was very sad to see you go from XXX.
Jax
Alex was very passionate and knowledgeable about GarageBand and encouraged the children to have a go and experiment with the app without the worry about making mistakes. Alex was very engaging and developed a lovely positive relationship with the children and they looked forward to him coming every week.
Miss Rees - Edwardsville Primary
Alex was a fantastic facilitator who engaged the pupils straight away. All of our learners were excited and proud of their work. I found the session to be very inclusive, drawing in our more reluctant learners and those with behavioural difficulties.
Mrs Neale & Mrs Bennett – Cyfarthfa Primary
Alex was a fantastic facilitator who engaged the pupils straight away. All of our learners were excited and proud of their work. I found the session to be very inclusive, drawing in our more reluctant learners and those with behavioural difficulties.
Mrs Neale & Mrs Bennett – Cyfarthfa Primary
“I think it was very very fun! I liked the voice overs, and adding our voices to the footsteps. It was funny! Alex was really patient and helped us a lot.”
Ralph
I would like to thank you for taking the time to work with Riley yesterday evening. I asked him if he enjoyed it, his response was "that was amazing!"
Homeschooling Parent
“The project was a tremendous success, the participants worked together to write and perform an original song recorded to CD that each participant got to keep. Participants said they had learnt a lot about how to write a song from scratch including working out a rhythm and individual instrumental parts. They also learnt about how to record sound using basic music software.
The workshop required them to work together as a team, think creatively, co-operate and negotiate with one another and use high level IT skills.
Alex Rees from Visible Music did a fantastic job of engaging the participants. The tasks were suitably varied and the content appropriately challenging without overwhelming participants. Alex was able to enthuse and inspire the participants in a way that helped and encouraged them to tap into their creativity and produce a very worthwhile piece of work.”
Jane Ellis, First Campus Co-ordinator, University of Glamorgan
It's Caleb from yr5 in XXX Primary School. We all really enjoyed the lessons you did they were fantastic we wish there would be more lessons because the ones you did were brilliant, we all had a great time 🙂
Caleb