One of the joys of
television in my childhood was watching Tony Hart - first on Vision On and then
on Take Hart - produce simple and beautiful drawings and paintings with
apparent casualness and effortlessness. He had a trick of starting with a
collection of rubbish - bits of paper, cardboard, metal, plastic, printed or
plain, "any old load of junk" as he would say" - and then
"get organised": arrange selected pieces on a backing sheet so that
when he put a frame around them they looked great. A work of 'art, you might
say.
The Australian
composer Gordon Hamilton has done something similar, turning status updates
from his Facebook friends into a vocal piece for his choir, The AustralianVoices. I had the pleasure last week of hearing them perform it live during a
concert in Old Wolverton's Holy Trinity Church; they invited Polymnia, the
choir I sing in, to do a guest spot in their concert, which was pretty cool
too. The song takes its title from the first of the status updates: "Toy
Story 3 = Awesome". Lee Unkrich, the director of Toy Story 3,
loved it, and you will too.
I'm not sure what the relevance for learning materials is, other than the obvious one: it's not what you've got, it's what you do with it that counts.
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