Abstract
Reflecting Others was a collaborative digital arts project run between December 2000 and March 2001 by Aldeburgh Productions, Debenham Church of England Voluntary Controlled High School and Her Majesty's Prison (HMP) Hollesley Bay. Students and young offenders used a variety of digital technologies to collect sonic and visual material relating to the project's central themes of identity, community and environment. Having exchanged these digital 'scrapbooks' of material, each group used the material collected by the other group to make a series of music and video compositions. These were placed within a specially designed installation. This article shares insights from this project drawn from a range of qualitative data collected by the then Head of Music Jonathan Savage and Mike Challis, an electroacoustic composer who is also a member of the school staff. The authors are interested in establishing the idea of a creative 'digital arts' curriculum. They seek to address the need for an appropriate model of compositional practice within such a curriculum. They draw on their observations of students working with these technologies, as well as analysing their students' views on using technologies as tools for sonic and visual composition.
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