KantaKantun is being carried out with early Secondary School students across Malta and Gozo, who learn about the often overlooked similarities between music and architecture. Students are encouraged to create their own material through planning and discussion while also learning to structure their ideas coherently.

This intensive project starts off with examining ideas of space and sound, and looking at how composers and architects deal with structure and style. This is followed by a trip around the school’s locality, where students observe architecture first-hand, with particular focus on contemporary architectural space. The visited spaces are then discussed and using voice and percussion the students create a soundscape inspired by those spaces. The final part of the project has the students listening to a soundscape created by another school, and they have to reverse to process and imagine spaces that had possibly inspired the other students. Their designs are then transferred unto a series of prefabricated architectural elements to form an installation.

KantaKantun is about observing, commenting, and creating. The fundamental starting point is the idea of sound and space as raw materials for creative expression. And the end result? That will go well beyond Valletta 2018…