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Week Nine

Homework:
Continue to work on your microSound Worlds installation. The project will be due in two weeks. Next week we will learn how to use the Quad Panner in Ableton and begin to construct your piece in quad for the installation space.

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In 2014, Norwegian artist Jana Winderen created a 7-block long, multichannel, immersive sound installation within the Park Avenue Tunnel using sounds recorded from shallow to deep underwater environments in Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Canada, USA, Thailand, and the around the equator in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Jana records sounds made by crustaceans, fish and mammals using sensitive hydrophones. Read more here.

Sound Artist Jana Winderen’s 2014 multi channel installation Dive Into The Park Avenue Tunnel in NYC.

Stephen Vitiello: Listening with Intent
ABC followed Stephen Vitiello across the Kimberley region in Western Australia, documenting the challenges and extraordinary experiences he encountered in his efforts to capture the sounds of the Australian landscape for his sound installation work.

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Week Seven/Eight

We will finish critiquing the final sound walks today. Please come to class with the audio ready to go on your portable device. Don’t forget your headphones.

Homework:
• Begin work on Project 3 – MicroSound Worlds.
• LISTEN to Jana Winderen’s “Out Of Range” album.
• LISTEN to Christina Kubisch’s “Magnetic Flights” album.

Next class we will be making contact microphones. I will supply you with a few piezo discs for making contact mics in class but if you want more you can buy them in bulk here [ LINK ] or on Amazon.

• Check out these Contact Microphone recordings of everyday objects:

 

 

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Week Six

– Today we will begin our Immersive Sound Walks. Please come ready to begin at the start of class. Be sure to have your headphones, all the pieces loaded onto your mobile device and make sure your device is fully charged. I emailed a download link to the class on Sunday, but in case you missed it, you can access the audio files on the Downloads page.

HOMEWORK:
– No homework this week. Just relax. We’ll be starting on Project 3 next week 🙂