Bing Bang Boom

Bing Bang Boom

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This short 1969 documentary follows acclaimed innovator and composer R. Murray Schafer as he visits a Grade 7 music classroom to teach students that all the sounds of life are a part of music. Schafer’s provocations help these curious learners discover music without instruments or painfully learned notes and scales. Schafer encourages the students to listen to every sound around them and then transform what they hear—voices, steps, breath—into music. The fun-filled result is a convincing illustration for educators: children learn best when it’s from the inside out.

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Bing Bang Boom, Joan Henson, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Credits
  • director
    Joan Henson
  • editing
    Joan Henson
  • producer
    Joseph Koenig
  • photography
    Tony Ianzelo
  • sound
    Claude Hazanavicius
    Jean-Guy Normandin
  • sound editing
    Jean-Pierre Joutel
  • re-recording
    George Croll
    Jean-Pierre Joutel

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