The Creative Communications Showcase on Wednesday 21st May offered an in-person and online glimpse into the original and creative work produced by some of our talented students this year.
It was exciting to run the event in both live and digital formats for the first time and enabled even more people around the world to join our showcase, sharing creativity with a global community.
Everything the audience saw or heard has been imagined, developed, arranged and created by the students themselves. Those watching from Main Hall, also enjoyed the visual and auditory opportunities of immersion in the work of the technical team that is usually hidden in the background.
Rosemary Scales, Director of Music and Media, commented: “With work this original, you never quite know what surprises might be in store, so always expect the unexpected! It was quite a feat to run the whole event so smoothly, online and in the room. A student-led event with both content and the technical side being driven by them. A wonderful evening of creativity and collaboration.”
Freddie (Upper Sixth) explained that his piece ‘Into the Forest’, “is all about adventure and unpredictability. Despite this I did expose some melodic ideas, then developed them to create some sense of form and progression, like an adventure should. The composition starts with just woodwind and double bass, as I think this reflects the soundscape and theme.”
Laura (Upper Sixth), on her composition ‘Euridice’ shared: “I was inspired heavily after listening to the musical ‘Hadestown’ for the first time, which tells the mythical story of Orpheus and Eurydice but set in the modern day. The musical inspired me to write a modern love/breakup song using metaphors of this mythological story. I wrote from the perspective of an outsider comparing themselves to Eurydice within a relationship, using the “betrayal” between the two in the original plot as the “breakup” in my story.
The Creative Communications Showcase is a perfect example of the logical approach of STEM fusing with the imaginative nature of the Arts to make the unique STEAM experience that Leighton Park offers every student. Bringing together technical skills from music technology, computer science and physics with innovative artistic concepts in visual art, sound and music the audience were treated to sensational evening.
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