THE SONIC KITCHEN WORKSHOP 09.00 - 09.15 Introduction what do sounds tell us about our food?

? Explanation of the activities we are about to do 09.15 09.30 Draw the breakfast you ate, with sound effects

09.30 09.45 Everyone shares their sonic breakfast drawing and sound effects, so we go around the room, hearing from some of the students about their breakfast and the sounds that were produced while it was being made 10.00 10.10 Sonic treasure hunt we go into the kitchen area with post-it-notes and find something which makes a sound; we try to write or draw the sound, and we tag the object 10.10 10.35 left! 10.35 11.00 11.00 11.30 We explore the kitchen, looking at all the notes people BREAK NOISY TIME (MAKING SOUND)

Small groups of students take it in turns to come into the kitchen area and play with the sounds we have set up; pastry cutters and contactmicrophones; popcorn in a pan; onions frying; buttering toast; grating carrots; squeaking cabbage etc. The students not in the kitchen area can practice ways of making sounds with food-stuffs, and think about what kind of sounds they might like to record in the sonic kitchen 11.30 12.00 QUIET TIME (LISTENING TO SOUND)

We listen to all the recordings that we made in the kitchen and talk about them DOCUMENTATION It would be good to have someone documenting the process with a camera. (2 cameras even better). Is there a school camera that can be used? Also it would be useful to have paper and pencils/pens handy. RESOURCES NEEDED 1. A kitchen area which can be accessed in advance of the lesson, for setting up food/props/recording equipment etc. 2. Wall-space 3. Pens and pencils, post-it-notes, large sheets of paper 4. Speakers that can be plugged directly into my little Peavey mixer; (do we have any such speakers? Perhaps the lunchbox speakers?) 5. A budget for sonic foodstuffs 6. Parking space close to the school for bringing everything out of the car and into the space