ABSTRACT
The desire of diverse people to play, listen, and interact with each other supportively
Inspiring each student to share their ideas with each other freely and supportively
Choosing together which ideas to use at any given moment
Playing together successfully as one ensemble that inspires individual respect, empathy, support, and diversity in pursuit of a shared common goal
Because sound-making is collaborative in nature, it inspires children’s creativity in a wonderful world of infinite possibilities that are as simple as the following:Two or more children listening to each other clapping
Two or more children engaging in a call-and-response type dialogue using all kinds of sounds, verbal, nonverbal, silly syllables, claps, rubs, foot stomps
Children trying to outdo each other with how they make an intentional sound in a deliberate way—counting, clapping, and using all kinds of sounds
Two or more children engaging in a free, unstructured dialogue using all kinds of sounds
One child leading and conducting their peers as an ensemble making all kinds of sounds
Kristin, an educational coach to whom I was teaching Creative Sound Play, shared a story with me from her pre-K teachers about children taking turns spinning around in the only cup on the playground.