The International Year of Sound: A worldwide student competition

Abstract

In the frame of the International Year of Sound (IYS), the global initiative recognized under the UNESCO Charter of Sound No. 39C/59, a Competition for students from around the world on the theme of “My World of Sounds” has been organized by the International Commission for Acoustics. Primary and middle school students produced and sent drawings, images, patchwork, collages and similar related to their world of sounds. High school students wrote and sent verses of the song entitled “The sound of the world.” By 30 April 2021, respectively, 39 items for the first Competition category and 33 items for the second one have been sent to the Competition office, as national finalists from overall 16 countries. An experts’ jury expressed its preferences about the items answering to three questions concerning coherency, originality, inspiration and a web jury voted the preferred items on the official IYS facebook page. The IYS Competition office has then worked to combine votes from both juries and to declare the winners. As final output, a short movie and a long one will summarize the IYS story, its global initiatives and they will focus on the Student Competition.