SCHOOLS
Anonymouz worked with pupils at three local primary schools to create one soundscape per school. Learning to listen carefully to the world around them, the children recorded sounds from a heritage site, a mountain and a school.
Storytelling through sound is powerful. When we stop to listen, the familiar becomes extraordinary.
Press play to watch and hear each school's soundscapes. NB - each soundscape begins with at least 25 secs of silence.
At Favona Primary School a stick vibrating along a fence evokes drums and thunder, and a teacher’s memories mingle with a child’s karanga.
On Māngere Mountain (Te Pane-o-Mataoho), pupils from Māngere Bridge School contrast the sounds of giggling while smashing a stick inside a cow pat with the howl of wind in the crater and the hum of traffic from the bridge motorway.
Pupils from Māngere Central School let bird sounds and rustling leaves create the atmosphere of the Otuataua Stonefields (Ihumatao), and then add their voices to a call to protect the area.