Data generated during the project and workshop series Sounds Like Music which Dr Christian Ferlaino and Prof Raymond MacDonald led in Glasgow in November-December 2023. 

Sounds Like Music is a workshop for people with every musical experience, including none. It is an inclusive music-making platform that values participation, creativity and interaction over technical skills. We strongly believe that everybody is musical and can take part in music-making regardless of their skills. Every participant brings an object or an instrument that makes a sound with a special meaning to them. We explore those sounds in new and fun ways and make music using improvisation, interaction strategies, games and verbal and graphic scores. The workshop series aims at increasing access to musical participation for people who would be otherwise excluded from making music. It challenges established concepts and practices around music and musicality and promotes social innovation by initiating new ways of relating with the others and the environment through sound. We believe that unlinking music-production abilities from specialised instrumental training enables everybody to make music without requiring mastery of an instrument, or specific musical idioms and techniques, and lead to the emergence of new types of musicality.

The files contained in this dataset are part of the EU Funded research LoMus - Local Sound for a New Musicality: Enhancing Musical Participation Through a Local Sonic Practice. The data have been purged of unnecessary personal information and any information that goes beyond the scope of the research.
The data are protected under the Creative Common Attribution 4.0 International licence.