Things Due for Dec 3rd
- If you aren’t already, make sure you are up to date on all the projects thus far.
- Make especially sure that you have uploaded or linked your projects to your blogs so they can be screened in class.
- Refer to the syllabus and your class notes for specifics on the projects.
Overall, you should have finished - your audio mashups
- made adjustments to audio mashups based on feedback from last class
- uploaded and finished your video manifeto
- uploaded your completed manifesto, mashups and source materials to the uploaded files folder in the dropbox to share with classmates
- started working on your video/audio mashups, drawing from resources listed in the syllabus, classmates materials, and or self shot footage
As mentioned two weeks ago, we will be screening and workshopping video mashups in class, so make sure to have the majority of the project completed BEFORE you arrive this Friday morning. If you’ve run into issues acquiring footage, editing, or tweaking audio, this week will be the week to get you caught up. And as always, email or call me with issues. See you friday
Homework for 10/12
Start thinking about your final project ideas and be prepared with an option or two in class for discussion and feedback
catch up on any prior assignments that are not posted on your blog
record an acoustimatic soundscape. Focusing on a single location for at least five minutes. Present your recorded audio in class and provide a two page paper explaining the space, and dissecting the recording for both detail and emotional/ psychological impact.
present your complex “mash-up” comprising a minimum of 4 tracks. You are encouraged to explore the resources listed and use a range of audio clips from political speeches, to propaganda, to advertising, to drum loops, and finally sampled sounds.
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Module Five (Moving Image)
Week 10 Creativity, Copyright, and Fair Use
11/12
Presentation:
Readings/Viewing:
Burgess, Jean and Joshua Green. YouTube. Malden: Polity Press, 2009. 1-14, 15-37,
38-57. Print.
Lange, P. G. (2007). Publicly private and privately public: Social networking on YouTube.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 18.
YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube
for alleged copyright violation.
Demonstrations:
- Recording video
- In-browser editing (jaycut.com)
- iMovie, Finalcut Pro
- Posting video to YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv
- Soundsnap (soundsnap.com)
- YouTube download tool (keepvid.com)
B flat….it’s everywhere
http://www.beautyinmusic.com/misc_pages/the_big_note.htm
For Class Nov 5th
Make sure to have your wikipedia link completed, take a screen capture of them and post to your blog along with a link.
Also, make sure you create a custom search engine and try to post it to your blog. there is a thread on the blog below with comments linking to troubleshooting guides. If anyone successfully managed to integrate it with their blog, post your walkthrough in the comments below.
Next class we will be going over the following:
Module Four (Sound)
Week 9 The Sound-Text
Ripping Yarns –Remix, Mashups
11/5
Presentation:
Hearing – The Subliminal Sense
A discussion of the often “over-looked” sense of hearing, and the ways in which sound is sculpted and manipulated to create its own texture, message, effects, etc. This lecture uses sound in cinema and video-games as a spring-board for a wider discussion concerning the power of the ear to hear – and selectively not hear – the most significant aspects of its acoustic environment.
Readings/Viewings/Listening:
http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html
1. Arthur Schopenhauer, “On Noise”
http://www.mgilleland.com/asonnoise.htm
2. Luigi Russolo, “The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto”
http://helios.hampshire.edu/~hacu123/papers/luigi.html
3.. UbuWeb
4 Audacity
5 Jamglue (browser-based remix service) (www.jamglue.com)
6 Sound archive (www.freesound.org/)
7 Distribute your audio (soundcloud.com/)
8 Myna (www.aviary.com/tools/myna)
Presentation:
Lab:
Create a complex “mash-up” comprising a minimum of 4 tracks. You are encouraged to explore the resources listed and use a range of audio clips from political speeches, to propaganda, to advertising, to drum loops, and finally sampled sounds.
Advanced users are encouraged download the audio freeware MEAPsoft (labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/meapsoft/) to re-segment popular audio tracks.
Readings/Viewings/Listening:
1. Listening to Nature
http://museumca.org/naturalsounds/
2. Pauline Oliveros
http://www.last.fm/music/Pauline+Oliveros
3. John Cage 4’33”
4. Transmitting live from the Ocean below the Antarctic Ice
http://www.awi.de/en/research/new_technologies/marine_observing_systems/ocean_ acoustics/palaoa/palaoa_livestream/
5. DJ Food, Raiding the Twentieth Century (MP3 file)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/dj_food.html
6· Last.fm, Pandora, reverbnation
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