I Can Compose is delighted to announce a new partnership with Sound and Music, working together to collate compositions from young people for a brand new ‘Minute of Listening’ collection.

What is ‘Minute of Listening’?

Minute of Listening is a unique music education platform with collections of 60 second pieces of music and sound. Exploring the collection and reflecting on what they hear and feel activates young people’s creative listening and musical discovery skills while also providing a creative means of representing and making sense of the world around them.

Since its launch in 2011 over 30,000 children in 3,500 UK schools have engaged with the collections exploring emotions, identities, histories, geographies, traditional music from across the globe and more.

“Sound and Music’s Minute of Listening platform has broadened the children’s experience of music and sound, providing opportunities to explore the unfamiliar, share their view and ideas.”

Participating School

How will the new collection work?

Sound and Music is developing Minute of Listening 2.0 in 2025 to create a new collection of ‘a year of music: 365 minutes’. The music will explore a spectrum of social themes with a focus on understanding and representing our unique experiences of growing up in and navigating the modern world.

We are working with existing music education partners from a range of settings across the country, along with young, emerging and established artists from its programmes to create collections for the platform.

If your students (aged 11-18) would be interested in composing for the new collection, please read on for more details and complete the short Expression of Interest form at the bottom of this page.

What are the themes for the 2025 Minute of Listening?

The themes for the new collection are:

  • Identity and Belonging
  • Memories, histories and traditions
  • Change and Journeys
  • Relationships
  • My community and my environment
  • The changing natural world
  • Dreams, Future and Space

What resources can students use to support them with their 1-minute compositions?

I Can Compose has some free resources available for students to use as they start composing. Below is a list of some of the resources they may wish to explore:

How can I get involved?

If you’d like to be involved in the new collection you can do so in several different ways:

  • Look at existing compositions that may fit with the themes.
  • Present the task to your students in class as a real-world composing brief. Share the themes and consider how they might be brought to life through music.
  • Weave the brief into an existing scheme of work.   
  • Share with students who might like to work on a free composition in their own time.

Please complete the Expression of Interest form to register your interest and find out more.

Get involved (complete Expression of Interest form)

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