Blank Project 2
Blank Project
Music Creativity & Wellbeing
Music, Creativity & Wellbeing
Jean is working with Music, Creativity and Wellbeing a research project led by Dr Una MacGlone investigating mental health impacts of community music participation for children and young people.
Jean has been working with Una MacGlone since 2016, devising instant graphic score packs comprised of collage elements ( e.g paper, tissue, images cut from magazines, plastic, painted card, sections of text). These scores have been used with a range of groups as an improvisational tool to create musical scores.
For Music Creativity and Wellbeing, Jean is working in collaboration with Una to further develop this work and to design and investigate instant graphic scores to be used by children and young people with additional support needs (ASN) in creative music workshops.
These materials were tested out in community setting in 2022 and will be piloted in school settings in 2023.
Find out more:
Read ‘Visual strategies for sound: the key to graphic scores’ an article by Una published in The Wire featuring Jean’s graphic scores.
Children improvising with collage graphic scores
at The Pyramid in Glasgow
Children improvising with collage graphic scores
at The Pyramid in Glasgow
instant graphic score package
Sound for the Future
Sound for the Future
Jean created collages for animation for ‘Sound For the Future’ an affectionate, daring and hilarious reconstruction of the story of The Hippies, Britain’s youngest post-punk band, as told by the band’s drummer, filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Jean responded in collage to songs on a cassette album recorded by The Hippies which were then animated by the film’s editor Nick Currey.
The film, Hulse’s third feature, premiered online in 2020 at the London Film Festival had its first UK tour in late 2022.
Sound For The Future is available to watch via various streaming services.
Jean created collages for animation for ‘Sound For the Future’ an affectionate, daring and hilarious reconstruction of the story of The Hippies, Britain’s youngest post-punk band, as told by the band’s drummer, filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Jean responded in collage to songs on a cassette album recorded by The Hippies which were then animated by the film’s editor Nick Currey.
The film, Hulse’s third feature, premiered online in 2020 at the London Film Festival had its first UK tour in late 2022.
Sound For The Future is available to watch via various streaming services.
