Selkirk High School have prepared a space within the music department to include a control room, recording booth plus access to a large classroom where larger groups, such as choirs or ensembles could record together. To start with, the studio will be used by pupils working with Ian Lowthian and Fraser Hewitt (the new music Teacher), but it is hoped that the studio will be used more widely for community projects, particularly projects that address issues such as mental health, confidence building or working with neurodivergent young people and adults.
Ian is funded at the High School with some of the school's allocated PEF money to work with young people who are less likely to engage well with school because of a number of reasons. With Ian, they will learn to use all the studio equipment and develop skills to work in a studio, but perhaps more importantly they are given the opportunity and encouraged with Ian to be creative through music, either learning an instrument, composing music, writing songs, making remixes of computer game themes, writing jingles etc, or whatever they fancy doing! Sometimes the sessions are just spent talking or listening to music. As it develops Ian hopes that some of the young people will start to work collaboratively on projects to create music and videos.
