Antarctic Waves




Antarctic Waves is a BAFTA award-winning music resource for Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-level students (and equivalent UK qualifications) that uses real science, stunning images and extraordinary sounds from the Antarctic to inspire musical composition.


The Toolkit has three main areas;

Virtual Tour
a 'sights and sounds' tour of the Antarctic

Making Music
the interactive music section using bespoke sounds created from Antarctic sounds and including detailed Composing Guides

Connections
which details the history of the production
Launched at the British Association's science festival in Leicester, Antarctic Waves was singled out by BAFTA then Vice President Lord Puttnam, for its quality educational content and for "helping to make BAFTA smart". The published citations described the project as “highly imaginative”, “clever”, “unusual” and “fresh”.

As well as a BAFTA award, Antarctic Waves was given a Sunday Times award and Jonathan Amos of the BBC described it as … “ice cool music”.

Antarctic Waves was developed by British Antarctic Survey and Braunarts.

David Putnum Antarctic Waves

Antarctic Waves at the Natural History Museum’s Darwin Centre - an introduction to the work featuring a video link by Lord Puttnam. Photograph by Pete Bucktrout, British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic waves on it's Bafta award winning night

Antarctic Waves wins a BAFTA in the Offline Learning category. Photograph by Pete Bucktrout, British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic waves besing used

Antarctic Waves at the Natural History Museum’s Darwin Centre - a schools introduction. Photograph by Pete Bucktrout, British Antarctic Survey