In 2021/22, SWLMEP commissioned a major youth voice project to understand how young people perceive the role of technology in their music education. We wanted to know our students’ opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of technology-driven musical activity and what learning we can take forward to codesign the innovative future use of technology in Music Education Hubs.

One of the outcomes of this work was that young people wanted more guidance on where and how to start creating music and manipulating audio with technology.

As a Music Hub partnership, we are now working to create a new website where young people can learn more about technology-based music and give them a starting point to explore. We are therefore looking for artists, creatives, and professionals from each of the seven boroughs that can produce video and learning content that:

• Explains who you are and how you use technology to work with sound and/or create music.
• Gives an overview of your journey: How did you start working with technology-based music? What are you doing now? What are your future plans?
• Showcases your work.
• Signposts the young people to a way in which they could start experimenting with technology-based music – for example, using a free App – and give them one or more ideas or a tutorial about how they could use it to create their own music.
• What advice would you give to any young person wanting to use technology to create music and work with sound?