The 1st of June was the grand finale of our TRANSPLANTED project with the children in p. 5 and p.6 at Carntyne Primary School. We spent the first part of the morning rehearsing each group in turn, making sure everyone remembered which instrument they had to play when, as well as planning who would conduct each piece to ensure everyone in the group moved through their graphic score at the same pace. The rehearsal also gave the children an opportunity to explain what they wante

We started work on 9 graphic scores today. Before our young composers put pen to paper we looked at at a beautiful long graphic score that Sonia had created on a roll of wallpaper. It was all about the Nettle plant and we began the session altogether and played through her piece. The musical journey started very calmly with the gentle sounds of nature, bees buzzing, the rustling of leaves in the breeze and the melodic sun rising in the sky. Then, we experience a bit of troubl

Another beautiful morning greeted us- we're beginning to think it is always sunny at Carntyne Primary School! The children were as enthusiastic as ever in warm up games designed to strengthen inner rhythm and ensemble playing as we passed a pulse round the circle. This week we harnessed the school's percussion collection, and by 9.30 we were all well and truly awake following a group improvisation of cymbal clangs, clave taps, hand chime tones, maraca shakes and cabasa groov

Main Aims Continuing on from last week, show how composers can describe the many characteristics of plants Introduce concept of graphic scores Divide classes into groups and lucky dip a native Scottish plant that will be the inspiration behind their own composition We started our second lot of sessions with Carntyne Primary P5&6 with a group warm up which included creating the train sounds from this fantastic graphic vocal score Sonia and I continued presenting miniatures fro

The beautiful sunny morning was a great way start to our first session with P6 at Carntyne Primary. As the students entered the room in their bright red jumpers I was pleased to hear one call out to me 'I want to learn the violin!' Their enthusiasm for the music never wavered throughout the session and Sonia and I had a wonderful time at the school today. Session One - main aims - perform to the students and show how music can describe characteristics of plants - encourage

We are taking TRANSPLANTED to a new audience, the music and the wild plants that inspired the project have proven to be a great education resource. We are grateful to have received support from the Glasgow Natural History Society GNHS and help from Enterprise Music Scotland EMS to create a pilot education project based on this material and are working over a 5 week period with P5 & P6 at Carntyne Primary School. The Project: Plants are vital to human existence; from the air w