Homework: what did you subscribe to?
Why? How does this inform your artistic practice?
Reminder about the MFA show 7pm Thursday in the Zoller Gallery.
Blogs?
Persepolis Screening: Next Monday?
http://www.archive.org- Large collection of Creative Commons liscensed and open source video and audio. Also home of the way back machine.
Sonic Postcard- Open Website about making your own audio postcard using the sound samples of others, your own, or a combination. Includes free audio software links to the audacity audio program.
My awesome sonic postcard, called ’sheep playing football in the rain’:
how do you stick audio in like that? go to my old website, which is acting like a server, go to ‘uploads’, upload your file, and copy and paste the resulting text, which looks like this:
audio http://wodrfm.com/Sheep_Playing_Football_in_the_Rain.m4
(but include these [ ] brackets)
right into your text editor on wordpress. That’s it.
NPR Audio Postcards- narrated segments where listeners send in sounds and they become small parts of larger shows.
Carlos Rosas- new media sound and graphics
Lost and Found Sounds- Collections of sounds and stories lost to time and refound, mostly older audio recordings.
Prairie Home Companion- Still uses a real time sound effects guy, no digital assistance.
Oct 25 2003
Sound Project Details:
Create two audio postcards, in a group or not. If you are in a group, it should be twice as good as a single person’s project. Agree on one location (fictional or real) to explore. Spend time in the space, without recorders, getting a feel for the different sounds produced at different times. Make a note of the interesting ones, and make a point to record those. Take audio samples from at least 3 different days, and at different times. Make a rough edit of your samples, and then develop a plan of attack for part 2:
Sythetic sound creation, ala PHC. Recreate your audio postcard using sounds you make, using any means nessesary except the original object. For example: A car on wet road could be the sound of bacon frying. But you cant use bacon frying to make a bacon sound. Got it? This part will be harder, but more interesting, I think, from a conceptual point of view. Project due Feb 4, at the beginning of class. Have the audio posted on your blog, in two parts (real and synthetic).
