Education and Outreach
MESH Sound Toy
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Play HCMF's new sound toy, MESH, by clicking here. MESH is an on-line interactive sound toy for all ages commissioned in partnership with the University of Huddersfield Department of Music and Drama to celebrate HCMF’s 30th anniversary.
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Projects 2007
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This year’s programme offers an eclectic mix of creative projects, workshops and events for a wide range of participants and audiences, all aimed at making new music accessible in a participatory way and providing direct access to world-class artists and workshop leaders. Highlights include an on-line interactive sound toy, a series of tasty food-related outreach projects associated with Cut & Splice, an enigmatic musical code-cracking project, open workshops and family events as well as the usual great tickets offers and curriculum support for school and community groups. Please see below for individual projects and workshops.
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Huddersfield Grooves
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Working in partnership with Live Music Now Yorkshire & Lincolnshire (LMN) and the Huddersfield Examiner, we are delivering a series of live music performances in Kirklees in the run up of the Festival to celebrate the 30th anniversaries of both HCMF and LMN.
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AudioMunch
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Audio-Munch is a music and science project exploring the sounds of food; paying homage to British chefs Jamie Oliver and Heston Blumenthal and raising awareness of what we eat.
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Cracking the Code
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Janek Schaefer’s installation Extended Play takes its inspiration from Schaefer’s Polish heritage and the World War II musical system of gramophone codes called Jodoform, which were broadcast by the BBC between London and Warsaw to convey vital messages to the Polish Underground during occupation. Rather than using sequences of individual musical notes to represent letters of the alphabet, Jodoform used a series of pre-arranged recordings; many of them Polish folk melodies, to communicate fixed messages.
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