In September 2019, composer James Redwood visited four Southampton Primary Schools: collecting musical ideas from 100 school children, inspired by the Mayflower 400 story.
Now, those ideas have become a brand new piece of music: “Symphony 400: The Voyage” — debuted by 60 talented secondary and sixth form musicians at the Mayflower Theatre on Friday 6 March 2020
Watch the video of the story of “Symphony 400: The Voyage”.
Where Now? An Unexpected Twist
When the Symphony 400 journey began back in September, no one could have predicted the circumstances that would be to follow in March 2020. With social distancing and isolation set to be a part of life for the weeks, and possibly months, to come, there is a twist in the next stage of our journey.
One Start — Many Different Journeys
Southampton Music Hub is making all the music available — to anyone — for free — including…
PDF scores
Sibelius Files
MIDI Files and more
You can use these to…
Remix
Reimagine
Rearrange
Transform
Play
Perform and more
This can be done…
At home
At school
On video chat with friends or relatives
Using apps on your smartphone or tablet
Using apps on your PC or Mac
With an instrument
With your voice
Any way you can imagine — the possibilities are endless
Why not try…
Printing out the score, and chopping it up — move the pieces around and then stick them down again
Adding the MIDI parts to GarageBand or Logic and changing the instruments — explore the world of digital sound
Create loops — either by playing or recording — layer them up and remix the parts
If you have recordings, photos or scores you’d like to share, send us links on Twitter or via the contact page, and we’ll try to share some with everybody.
Where next? It’s up to you!
Where our journey goes next is in your hands. Symphony 400: The Voyage launched its journey in the classroom, and led us all the way to the Mayflower stage. Now, let many more journeys begin.