The students were tasked with creating a 3 minute soundscape based on Liverpool that included natural sounds and was influenced by an artist's work. They visited Albert Dock to record ambient sounds. Their soundscape focused on the Beatles, including recordings from a museum exhibit on them. It featured sounds representing key events in the Beatles' lives and careers, such as fan screams, wedding bells, and John Lennon's assassination. The soundscape aimed to evoke the Beatles without explicitly stating its subject to see if listeners could identify what it was about. The students felt it met the goals of their project.

1. Justification
For this unit we our task was to create a sound scape based on Liverpool. Our
sound scape had to last 3 minutes and had to include natural and
environmental sounds, influenced by Bill Fontana’s work. So our whole class
took a trip to the Albert dock and recorded sounds that could go into our
sound scape. We recorded lots of things like people walking over a bridge, the
sounds of a bus driving and lots more that we thought would be useful to our
sound scape. The theme we decided to go with was the Beatles as we felt that
the Beatles are the most famous thing to come out of Liverpool. Our groups
original idea was to create a time line of the Beatles but later realised that we
did not want to give away our idea of the Beatles that easily so we decided to
take the most famous sections of their lives and put them into our sound
scape. For example, marriages, screaming fans and when John Lennon was
shot down in front of his house. During our trip to the Albert dock, we visited
the Liverpool museum and recorded a show on the Beatles. We had part of this
show playing in the background of our soundscape to create overlaps and
levels within it. We also recorded the sound of a fan on a building; we thought
this could represent their fans screaming. We also took sounds from free
sound like a submarine and a gunshot as we could not record these sounds
ourselves.
Key Points
This is the sound of an aeroplane
fading in and then fading out.
We thought this could represent
them going on a world tour and
travelling to different countries.
We had to edit this before we
put it into our sound scape.

2. This is the sound of water
trickling. We thought this
could represent the Albert
Dock as it is Liverpool’s most
famous landmark.
Here we recorded the
sound of a fan. We
thought this could
represent the Beatles
fans when they were at
their most famous.
This is the sound of wedding bells. We
wanted to add their personal life into it
so included wedding bells as they all got
married at one point in their life.
Here is the sound of a
submarine. Our aim was to
create a sound influenced by
one of their most famous
songs so we decided to choose
‘Yellow Submarine’ as it is
famous worldwide.
This sound is a gunshot representing
John Lennon’s death. This
assassination is one of the most

3. famous of all time. This may give the audience an idea of what our soundscape
is about.
Conclusion
Our soundscape has met our initial ideas. We have taken parts of the Beatles
life and put it into one soundscape. Our initial idea was for people who listen
to it, to think about what it is about and I think we have are successful with
that idea as we do not give away anything specific. I also think our soundscape
has met the genre we aimed to create as it is completely about the Beatles.
Overall, I think the soundscape we have created has been successful.