300 Word Research statement

The Global Sound Movement (GSM) website establishes a central repository for the practice-based research and is a significant contributor to the fields of sonic archiving and ethnomusicology. This publication disseminates research findings and presents a multitude of ways in which an international audience engages with the many and varied outputs of the GSM. The research took place globally with multiple projects completed in; Europe, Asia, Africa, Indonesia and USA. This was conducted between June 2015 and February 2020. In total, over 450 recordings have been made.

Building upon the work of Alan Lomax, R Murray Schafer, Chris Watson and Bernie Krause the research of the Global Sound Movement is inspired by their diverse research into archiving, sound ecologies and location recordings. However, this project differs in that it seeks to make available the materials generated through the research to interested parties via new digital technologies developed as part of the project. These include a globally accessible browser based step sequencer aimed at engaging key stage one learners, and an innovative virtual reality platform that enabled users to ‘Play’ the actual instrument in the virtual world ensuring the genuine instrument never leaves its natural home.

Such innovations have led to press conferences at the British Science festival and invitations as key notes at global educational conferences. Most notably for the Chinese Education Ministry and Chinese Centre for Scholarly Exchange.

Winners of the Times Higher Education Award for ‘Excellence and Innovation in the Arts’ 2016, GSM have appeared several times on different news programmes including a BBC One Documentary film, interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and BBC World Service. In print features on the GSM have been translated into 8 different languages ensuring international reach. To date the website receives over 15,000 unique users who regularly engage with the research outputs.

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OUR PRODUCTS

The GSM products are outcome of the teams work to record local hand built instruments and environmental recordings 

Every instrument was sampled to create a sonically rich and exclusive library that has been put together for use in Logic’s EXS24 Sampler and Native Instruments Kontakt. 

The environmental and / location recordings are taken as 96Khz, 24bit WAVs to ensure high quality for a range of uses. The ‘Full Pack’ contains the content of both ‘Environmental’ AND the ‘Samples & Loop Pack’.

GSM PLAYER

Eccleston Primary School

Doctor’s Lane, Eccleston, Chorley, Lancashire. PR7 5RA.

Global Sound Movement provided our KS2 pupils with a first class introduction to electronic sound and music production. Students found the workshops to be both challenging and engaging and were  given the opportunity to play ancient instruments that have been recorded from around the world. This particular session, stimulated pupils’ interest in electronic music production and careers associated with creative technology. Thank you GSM

Mr G Brindle / Year 4 Teacher

Showcasing the player, via touch screen

Interaction with the player, via touch screen

Interaction with the player, via ipads

Interaction with the player, via ipads

Interaction with the player, via ipads

Interaction with the player, via ipads