Module 12

OHT 5

Music Hints

Where suitable beach washed materials are in short supply, a logical alternative is to use the human-made packaging or natural materials all of which sometimes find their way to the sea.

Plastic

clean plastic wrap can be stretched and secured with tape over a comb to make a whistling sound

Polyvinyl juice containers make fine drums

Sand inside a PET bottle can become maracas

Plastic grocery bags flapped in the air can sound like distant shore break (if you chain them together you can actually create the white water as you flap)

Paper

Ripping

Scrunching

Flicked with the finger

Wood

Chopsticks or shaslick sticks for rapping on something else or each other

Box with broken shells can act as an amplifier (pick up a handful and drop them on the bottom of the box or try making a "rainmaker")

Fingers tapping on

Pots/pans/aluminum cans

Paper or Plastic ice cream containers

Glass bottles (gently!)

Or fingers simply clicked together

Voices

Grunting

Bubbling laughter

Squelchy sounds

Clicking sounds

Popping (finger in cheek)

Whining