DIY: Start to Listen
Together with our colleagues at Matrix, we developed this online toolbox to help deepen your listening skills. More than 800 teachers have already put it into practice!
For education
We hear things every day. But when was the last time you truly listened? Through our collaborations and tailor-made workshops, we explore this question together.
Would you like to work with your pupils or students on sound, listening, and listening art? aifoon offers a range of lesson plans and exercises suitable for teachers in primary, secondary, and higher (arts) education. These free digital listening tools are ready for you to use in the classroom, enabling you and your learners to independently explore the many dimensions of listening.
Workshop: Interioor
Show your pupils how sound shapes a space – and how small interventions can make a big difference. After all, healthy acoustics don’t just improve concentration and learning outcomes, but also wellbeing.
Workshop: LAwaBO
A noise laboratory for children (ages 9–12): adventurous listening and fearless composing.
Workshop: The City Rings
With this international project, pupils discover one another’s soundscapes and cultures through play – from Ghent to India. By actively listening, they become more aware of their surroundings, and build human connections across borders.
DIY: Geluidenatlas
Sound deserves its own language. Help us build a new vocabulary for what we hear. This continuously growing encyclopedia makes sound easier to understand. It’s an invitation to listen more carefully, and to speak more precisely about what we hear.
DIY: Field recordings
Head out to record sound yourself! Our step-by-step guide offers practical tips on how to get started with field recording. You’ll learn to think, observe, and feel with your ears.
Citymixer
An online tool that allows anyone to mix urban sounds into a personal, unique soundscape. Sounds from different neighbourhoods, projects and workshops, urban noises, memories, and compositions are reused in a playful, interactive listening environment.
DIY: Sound collage
A step-by-step guide to creating and drawing your own soundscape, using your own recordings. Guide a group in creating their own sonic landscape.
DIY: Sonorize
Create the soundtrack for a film clip using this step-by-step guide. Bring a film fragment to life through sound.
DIY: Draw and sculpt sound
Explore sound through drawings and clay. Have your pupils translate sounds into shapes, colours, and textures. They'll discover each other’s creations through touch.
Earreading
Discover how sound brings a story to life! With Earreading, children explore the narrative power of sound through audio clips, experiments, and a box full of sound objects.