Everyday Everywhere is a Sound: A Workshop exploring Sound Installation and DIY electronics

This workshop invites participants to explore sound and music technology through creative listening, hands-on making, and collaborative performance. Over two days, participants learn to find musical potential in everyday objects — turning the ordinary into the extraordinary through sound. Participants will bring personal or everyday objects — meaningful or mundane — and transform them into instruments or interactive sound-makers.

The workshop involves guided listening exercises to attune ears to everyday soundscapes and develop a knowledge of deep listening. Participants will then learn to solder basic components to build a sound installation using small hand-held speakers. They will experience alternative approaches to music composition by building a sound sculpture with everyday objects like balloons and jars. Participants will create a collective sound installation and group performance to present at the end of the second day.

No prior experience with music or electronics is required — just curiosity and a willingness to play, explore, and listen.

This workshop builds on two successful workshops for young people at the University of Huddersfield (pictured above), and at Chalkwell Hall in Southend-on-Sea (pictured below) in 2019.