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Week Five

• Continue to work on your Immersive Sound Walks. Please get me the finished mp3 no later than midnight Saturday October 2, 2021. Please encode the .mp3 file at 320kbps.. and please include a final version of your map. You can use Google Drive, WeTransfer, Dropbox or another cloud sharing platform. Then check the class website Sunday evening for a link to download all the walks. Once downloaded, please transfer all of them to a portable mp3 player, phone, etc. If you don’t have something to listen to them on, please let me know ASAP.

• Remember to bring your portable music player & headphones to class with the walks pre-loaded loaded. Please arrive promptly at 9am so we can organize and begin the walks. We’ll need most or all of the class to complete & critique them all.

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• Below are two videos highlighting the work of sound installation artist and electronic musician Ryoji Ikeda.

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Week Four

-Project two is now due October 5, 2021. Please make note.

HOMEWORK
-Continue to work on Project 2.
-Please read Chapter 1: What is Sound Art? in the Sound Art textbook before next week. Come to class ready to discuss the chapter.

-Sound Artists Janet Cardiff & George Bures-Miller

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Week Three

-Visit The Soundwalk Collective
-A recent article on Soundwalking in The Independent
-If you find yourself in Times Square check out Compass Song. A site-specific Soundwalk app by sound artists Mendi and Keith Obadike. Get in in the Apple App Store

HOMEWORK:
-Continue to work on Project 2
-Install the Free Zoom Ambisonic Player ** : MAC | WINDOWS
-If you haven’t used Adobe Audition before or need to brush up, I’ve made and posted some tutorial videos under the Tutorials tab.
** You will need this to export and correctly encode your Ambisonic™ audio into a binaural format for use with standard stereo headphones.

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Week Two

• Homework: Begin work on Project 2

• A behind the scenes look at how the Soundwalk Collective collaborated with John Perry Barlow and the blog Detour to create their Soundwalk through San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.

• Visit: Soundwalk.org
• Visit: The Soundwalk Collective
• Visit Janet Cardff’s website [LINK]

Listen: Five examples of site specific soundwalks by: Janek Schaefer, Scanner, John Wynne, Kaffe Matthews, Salome Voegelin and Mike Marshall [DOWNLOAD 121MB zip]

Examples of Musicians using Ambisonic Recording.
• Pink Floyd, “The Final Cut” Harvest/E.M.I, (1982).
• Roger Waters, “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking” (1984).
• Psychic TV, “Dreams Less Sweet“, Some Bizarre (1983).