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This photo was taken in an early morning, when everything still fall asleep.

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Artefact 2 - Sad, blue picture of the sea

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Artefact 2 - Sad, blue picture of the sea

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This is my first visit of the day, the blue sky was packed with grey clouds, and the sound of waves breaking seemed tired and lonely. I can also hear the aggressive wind howling around, and the sound of some seagulls nearby.

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In case you can't access the recording, here is the link to the voice record:

https://youtu.be/zXYnQlym_u8

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This is not just a game, but a journey with the sea. The beach becomes your world, and the shifting sky paints three moods you must move through.

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Creative Response - Echoes to the Sea's Whisper

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Creative Response - Echoes to the Sea's Whisper

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In this game, there are three shades of the place I visited, each with its own beauty and story.  I invite you to engage with the music in a natural setting and reflect on the visible and non-visible movements of waves, sounds, and all entanglements in the space. Move your body, letting the flow lead the play.

As you immerse yourself in the sound, move your body as if you are representing the natural elements there. You can be a bush, wind, wave, seagull, or any part of the landscape; let the dance bring spirit to your chosen representative. Listen deeply to the soundscape and allow your body to respond to the image of the sound you hear, as if you are becoming a character of nature and conveying your perspective through body language.

Additionally, if you pay attention closely, you will notice that the sounds of wave-breaking and wind remain constant, running throughout the piece. But why does the rhythm and melody shift? Because they are shaped by the weather. In the early morning, when the sky is filled with grey clouds, the sea feels tired and blue. But when the hidden sun broke through the clouds, it swept away all the darkness and blues. Lights touched everything, bringing life to breathing.

Afterwards, when I visited the place in the afternoon, I was totally mesmerised by the breathtaking warmth from the sunset that embraced my body and healed my soul. The golden beams reached out to kiss my red cheeks, while the wind gently caressed my brunette hair, like a greeting of welcome back. The orange coloured an entire scenario, dancing across waves and seashore, making seashells glimmer like tiny jewels.

Things shifted as the weather varied, so as people, we also view waves distinctly, feeling that they were aggressive before the dawn but gentle when the sunset cuddled. Perhaps because we could speak for ourselves, but it takes time for us to recognize nature’s voices. Therefore, that is also the purpose of my game: speaking the language of nature through the language of movements and music.

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The on-country visit to Brighton Beach actually brought me to the wonder of temporal art language, where music, movement, and drama are deeply entangled in the whisper of nature. Undoubtedly, the journey has brought me multiple unexpected experiences that I would never have thought of if I hadn’t slowed down my pace and paid attention to small details. And by saying that, this journey deliberately broadened my understanding of “music, movement, and drama” in general by viewing the scenery differently, and immersing myself to become a part of this piece of art.

While I’m writing this reflection, my heart is still trembling with the wonder of nature’s miraculous moments when memories recall me to that day. I was fortunate enough to view three spectacular shades of the landscape: the grey morning, the vibrant midday, and the golden sunset; each spoke in different languages and carried its own stories, welcoming me to alter my angle to feel, hear, and immerse myself.

I recognized the call of the sea when I first entered the scenery. It was an aggressive scream from the ocean, embodied in the sound of breaking waves whenever they hit the seashore. Correspondingly, the sound of wind howling, leaves rustling, and other elements also awaken my sleepy mind to become more active. And that’s how music in natural settings motivated me, I collected these audio to make a journal reflection that is interpreted through music, combining those elements into a piano composition, I want to speak through the language of music (Victor Wotten, 2013). The notes symbolized the waves, with rhythm and tempo changes representing the sea’s varied moods. And as I mentioned earlier, there are constant sounds of wind and waves running throughout the audio that reminded me of nature’s ongoing voice, steady beneath its many faces. Deliberately, movements became another translation as I imagined myself as one of the elements existing in the landscape: I am lonely but turbulently, my “skin” changes from deep navy to vibrant olive and radiant orange at the end - I am the sea, and my movements symbolize wave breaking. On top of that, drama unfolded as I stepped into these roles, performing nature’s story while also witnessing it.

This experience engaged all my senses; I smelled the salt air, felt the changing wind, and saw colours shift from grey to jade to orange. The story unpacked behind attending elements also resonates with my life journey, as distinct shades of the beach convey a different thought and story to my young inner self. I have the same feelings of loneliness and chaos as morning waves when I first came to Australia. I always told myself that I had to be a strong and independent person outside, but the weakness and homesickness have killed my ego inside; the scenario adds blue to the picture, just like how society treated me back then. However, I found joy in this hustle and bustle life, I have found the “sun” that swept away all my worries and brought back my meaning of life. Hence, I started to “breathe” again. The vigorous sunset at the end also embodied my sense of fulfilment and peace in myself at the moment, when my life is back on track and I have figured out my own pathway after times of getting lost.

Wilson (2012) highlights that natural environments invite open-ended creativity, while Gandini and Vecchi (2011) argue that expressive forms like music, movement, and drama are essential ways of knowing. My creative work reflects this integration: sound, gesture, and drama together form a dialogue with place. Welch (2009) reminds us that storytelling requires respect; while I interpreted the sea, the story belongs to the place itself.

For my future teaching, this reinforces the value of unhurried, natural settings where children explore sound, movement, and drama. Approaches like those in Dance Teaching Ideas (2021) show how toddlers can embody waves, wind, or animals, supporting experiences where children interpret place in their own ways through body, voice, and imagination.

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Dance Teaching Ideas. (2021, May 19). Creative dance movement for toddlers. https://danceteachingideas.com/creative-dance-movement-for-toddlers/

Edwards, C., Gandini, L., & Forman, G. (Eds.). (2011). The hundred languages of children: The Reggio Emilia experience in transformation. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Welch, W. (2009). Who owns the story? Storytelling, Self, Society, 5(1), 1–22. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41943296

Wilson, R. (2012). Nature and young children: Encouraging creative play and learning in natural environments (2nd ed.). Routledge.

Wooten, V. (2013, May 20). Music as a language [Video]. TEDxGabriolaIsland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvjW9arAZ0

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This photo was taken when the sun broke through the clouds, vanished away the grey on the clear sky.

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Artefact 2- Changes of weather that brings everything alive

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Artefact 2- Changes of weather that brings everything alive

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As I sat down, relaxing my body and soul, I noticed that clouds suddenly faded away, returning the clear blue sky when the sun rose behind the clouds. Birds started humming, vehicles drove across the street, and the town was now waking up from a long night.

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Harmony of the sea - a melody inspired from my engagement with nature

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This is the combination of diverse soundscapes I recorded, which I later made into a song, with a melody I sketched out from my mind after replaying the audio.

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Reflection to personal experience -  Intepreting thoughts through an instrument as a medium to shift perspective.

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From my perspective, I observed that there were 3 shades of the landscape at different times of the day. To better connect and interweave with the space, I recorded all entanglements and made them into a harmony of the sea.  Later, while listening again to the recordings, I recalled my memories and expressed my emotions through the piano. Notably, the notes became my representation of the waves, while shifts in rhythm and tempo reflected how the waves moved differently throughout the day.

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This photo was taken on my last visit of the day

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The golden beam reached out to every living thing in the space, its warmth and calmness brought me to heaven, where I was stuck in this beautiful moment.

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https://padlet.com/minyume2/the-harmony-of-the-sea-bd444b8r0p44x261