We'll begin our work for the semester with two short essays that will offer a few general perspectives on modes of listening, the sounds that surround us.
- Michel Chion, "The Three Listening Modes"
- R. Murray Schafer, "The Soundscape"
These are both excerpts from larger works, and are fairly complexly interwoven with all sorts of contextual allusions that might not be familiar to you — try to ignore that and focus on distilling a few salient points from each essay. Our class discussion will help to fill in the gaps.
Additionally, I'd like everyone to take part in a collaborative audio experiment that will serve as one focus of discussion for Wednesday's class. For this, you'll need to either download the SoundCloud app for your phone or use the SoundCloud site to record a short snippet of sound:
- You'll record a ten second audio clip at a time that corresponds to your birthday (mine is May 17th, so that'll be 5:17 — choose AM or PM by whatever's most convenient for you). Record whatever's around you wherever you are at that time.
- Follow the necessary steps to upload the track to SoundCloud and give it a title that includes your name and the words "Sound Snippet Experiment." Tag it with "PSMP-Spring2015" as well.
- I'll put together a playlist from the class sounds for us to use on Wednesday.
Please make sure that you've recorded and uploaded your ten second clip by the end of the day Tuesday.
No comments:
Post a Comment