Budding musicians filled the room to overflowing recently – all of them keen to be part of Westlake’s newest creative initiative.
The S.L.A.M. Collective is a new extracurricular music group that focuses on the song-writing and recording process. The letters stand for Singers, Lyricists, Artists and Musicians. “My hope for the group is to bring together all kinds of students with different musical interests and strengths to collaboratively create some fantastic original songs which could then potentially be released on streaming platforms such as Spotify,” says Music Teacher Jono Howan (pictured above and below right). “We are very excited to see what shape the group begins to take as the year progresses!
“As a music teacher I have already seen first hand the amazing compositions our students are capable of writing for NCEA, I am very optimistic about the calibre of music that could emerge once when these talented students begin working together,” says Jono.
“I’m so excited to make songs with such talented and amazing girls,” says S.L.A.M. Collective member Seo Yun. I hope we are able to present our songs to everyone at the end of the year.”
In the photos, taken at the first S.L.A.M. Collective session, students were selecting lines from books to use as the foundation for song lyrics.
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