weekly schedule

This section of the blog displays the week by week activities in the class, including in class activities, homework, due dates, and materials. To quickly jump to a week, click here:
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Week 1 – 9/01

Jul 072011

In Class

  • Introduction to Laboratory:
    Goals and outcomes.
  • Why are we listening?
    How do we experience the city with our senses?
    How does working in one particular perceptual mode give you insight into the others?
  • Introduce one minute of listening #1
  • Introduction to class website

Out of Class Work for week one:

  1. Read: NYT articles on noise and silence.
  2. Weekly Listening: Listen to Tony Schwartz – Sounds of my City (6:44)
  3. Project: This is your Ear (click here for project details)
    Create an ear on a 1″ square piece of Bristol paper. Work from observation. What shapes are in an ear anyway? Black and white. Materials open.
  4. Sound Journal #1 – Sound and memory
    Write one paragraph on the following questions:
    What is the first sound you can remember?
    What is a sound from your childhood that is important to you? Describe it. Why is it important?
  5. Materials for next week:
    • Sound journal (bring every week!)
    • Writing and drawing tools
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Week 2 – 9/08

Jul 072011

In class

  • DUE:
    1. Ear drawing.
    2. Sound Journal #1 -  Sound and Memory
  • Minute of listening
  • Group exercises
  • Listening more closely, developing a sound vocabulary.
  • Watch Listen. A film by David New about the composer R. Murray Schaefer

Out of class work for Week Two

  1. Sound Journal #2: Morning Sounds
    • Write about the sounds you hear from the time you wake up until you leave your room.
      Describe the sounds.
    • Try to represent the sounds and their relationships visually.
    • Additionally write briefly about the Weekly Listening. Compare the recordings and think about them in relation to your own listening experience.
  2. Weekly Listening: Sarah Peebles (2.52) Fernando Corbal – Brasilia (3.51)
  3. Read: Tony Schwartz – Sounds in the City
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Week 3 – 9/15

Jul 072011

In Class

  • DUE:
    1. Sound Journal #2 – Morning Sounds
    2. Tony Schwartz reading (quiz!)
  • Minute of Listening.
  • The immediate soundscape. Listening to 5th avenue
  • Work in teams to develop a language for the urban soundscape
  • Discuss tools for measurement.
  • Introduce Project – Listening to 5th avenue

Out of class work for Week Three

  1. Project: Listening to 5th avenue (Project STAGE ONE)
    • Team Roles: Identify the roles that your team will play in the first stage of the project.
    • Record your roles on the top of Page 2 in your Sound Journals.
    • Take two trips to your site to gather observations, perceptions and data.
    • Be sure to review the project guidelines before visiting the site! (Project STAGE ONE)
  2. Sound Journal #3: Record your observations, data and sketches.
  3. Weekly Listening: Hildegard Westerkamp (3.30). India Soundscapes (2.06)
  4. Video this week: Improv Everywhere – The Mute button

Group Paths

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Week 4 – 9/22

Jul 072011

In Class

  • DUE: Sound Journal. data, observations and notes from project stage 1 observations.
  • Minute of listening
  • Group Exercise: threeing
  • Review the observations from your site explorations. Discuss sound vocabulary
  • Define your team’s directions for the sketches (3 per person)
  • Each group presents their findings and ideas to the class in 3 minutes..
  • Visualizing sound. How do you translate what you’ve heard into something we can see? How does this relate to mapping?
    Here’s a link for a slideshow of images from the mapping presentation
  • Define roles for the week. Be more specific! Email them to John.

Out of Class

  1. Listening to 5th Avenue – Project Stage 2
    Sketches for soundmaps. Create 9 sketches per team. (see project for details)
  2. Reading for the week: R. Murray Schaefer – I Have Never Seen A Sound
  3. Sound Journal #4 The Home Commute
  4. Weekly Listening: TBD
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Week 5 – 10/06

Jul 072011

In Class

Materials for class:
Prototyping materials, sketchbook, journal

  • DUE:
    1. Sketches for soundmaps. 9 per team. (project stage 2)
    2. Sound Journal – Home Commute. I have never seen a sound.
  • Minute of listening
  • Perception & bodily experience.
  • Pin up your team’s sketches in a grid. Present your ideas to the class. 4 minutes per team.
  • Explore materials and form as a group.

Out of Class

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Week 6 – 10/13

Jul 072011

In Class

  • DUE: First rough of your map (project stage 3)
  • Minute of Listening (actually, 2 minutes and 16 seconds)
  • Review maps. Written comments for another team.
  • Work on your soundmaps with your team.
  • Introduce Project: The Listening Device

Out of Class

  1. Listening to 5th Avenue – Complete the Soundmap
  2. The Listening Device – Stage One.
  3. Sound Journal #6. Listening device notes and sketches
    Write a brief narrative describing your sound and your preliminary device idea.
    Create sketches that explore some possibilities for the shape and construction of your device. These sketches are exploratory, have fun with them.
  4. Weekly Listening - Christina Kubisch (4.00)
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Week 7 – 10/20

Jul 072011

In Class

  • DUE: Final group soundmap.
  • Breakdown for the day
    12-12:45
    Brief Presentation of Final Soundmaps to the class.
    1:00 – 2:00
    Lecture at Theresa Lang student Center
    55 west 13th street. 2nd Floor
    2:10 – 2:40
    Review the Team evaluation procedure.

Out of Class

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Week 8 10/27

Jul 072011

In Class

  • DUE: Completed Listening Device (with accompanying materials)
  • Minute of Listening
  • Test your Listening Device on a classmate.
  • Christina Kubisch, telephone pickups, and listening loops
  • Watch Positive Soundscapes
  • Begin Project: Favorite Sounds
    • new teams:
      1. Kristen, Ali, Jennifer
      2. Tory, Taiji, Crysta
      3. Grace, Julie, Hannah
      4. Marvel, Val, Oscar
      5. Christelle, Clara, Kyle

Out of Class

  1. Favorite Sounds – Stage one
    - interview 15 people. Post your team results to the Favorite Sounds spreadsheet.
  2. Favorite Sounds – Stage Two
    - Post your team results to the Favorite Sounds blog.
    - create illustrator portraits of the five people that you interviewed. Printed at 50% and trimmed.
  3. Weekly Listening: The New York IPS (2.44)  Philip Blackburn (3:47)
  4. Sound Journal #8 - These are some of my favorite sounds.
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Week 9 – 11/03

Jul 072011

In Class

  • DUE:
    Interview results added to the online spreadsheet.
    Illustrator portraits. Printed at 50% and trimmed.
  • Listen to some of the recordings created last week. Tips.
  • Visit from WNSR Radio!
    Pin up favorite sound portraits.
    Review the list of all locations and sounds for the class.
    Vote on the final sounds to record for Stage Two.
  • Audio recording Demo part 2.
  • Basic Editing demo part. 1

Out of Class

  1. Favorite Sounds
    begin recording Your Sounds.
    • go to the location and make careful recordings of your sound.
      Final recordings should be between 15 seconds and 3 minutes.
    • take a picture at the site of the location.
      It should be an image that sums up the site and the experience best! You will use the photo later.
  2. Weekly Listening:Helen Thorington (2:07) Ouie Dire (1:40)
  3. Sound Journal #9 – open sound journal writing/drawing

Materials for next week

  • Bring your laptop!
Technical references and tutorials
  1. Marantz recorder Tutorial
  2. Zoom H4N recorder Tutorial
  3. Zoom H2n recorder  tutorial
  4. Want to record with your phone?
    Here are some decent iphone apps
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Week 10 – 11/10

Jul 072011

In Class

  • DUE: First Round of recordings
  • Tutorial: Editing sounds with Audacity
  • Tutorial: Uploading sounds to the class Soundcloud
  • Tutorial: Posting the sounds, drawings and other info to the Listening Lab Tumblr blog.
  • Vote on the best template to use for the interview portraits

Out of Class

  1. Project: Favorite Sounds: Stage Two -  Complete recording Your Sounds. Add more sounds.
    contribute to the Listening Lab Blog.
  2. Interview Portraits: Use template to finalize your interview portrait
  3. critique response from listening device still needed from most of you!
  4. Weekly Listening: Christopher DeLaurtenti (4.35)
  5. Sound Journal #10 - media soundscape
    NOTE THIS CHANGE!
    Respond to journal #10 via the Tumblr blog and create a post on the Tumblr blog that includes these elements:
    1. Follow the directions, but record a sound in your environment that illustrates your observation.
    2. Write a brief entry, 1 paragraph about the sound.
    3. Create a black and white graphic  that uses two or more of the following media to accompany the sound and text:
    • - photography
    • - illustrator
    • - drawing media
    • - black/white/gray acrylic paint

     

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Week 11 – 11/17

Jul 072011

In Class

  • DUE:
    • Online Sound Journal – Media
    • Interview Portraits using the template
    • Sounds uploaded to Soundcloud and posted. Including Interviews.
    • Listening Device critique response
  • Listen to some of your sounds.
  • Listen to a few examples of edited soundscapes.
  • 10 Sound Collages in 2 Hours
    Sound Scape studies – Create a series of ten edited soundscapes in class in two hours.

 

Out of Class

  • Favorite Sounds: Stage Two -  Complete recording Your Sounds. More interviews!
  • Favorite Sounds: location –  add exact locations of your sounds into the Soundcloud description.
    We will need this to add the sounds to Peter Cusack’s sound map.
    1. Use Google Maps. Find the exact spot.
    2. Right-click on the desired spot on the map to bring up a menu with options.
    3. In the menu, select What’s here?.
    4. Click the green arrow to get the latitude and longitude coordinates.
    5. Copy and paste them into the soundcloud description.
  • 10+ Sounds in 2 Hours - Complete your collages and upload them to Soundcloud adding them to your Set.
  • Weekly Listening: Philip Samartzis (3.06) Bill Fontana (6.22)
  • Online: Sound Journal #11 - Drawing Venice
  • overdue for many of you! Online: Sound Journal #10 – media

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Week 12 – 11/22 (Tuesday make up class)

Jul 072011

DUE

  • 10+ Sound Collages
  • Sounds uploaded
    • (team: 0 sounds. Grace 0, Hannah 0, Julie 0) nothing checked off
    • (team: 4 sounds. Kyle 2, Christelle 2, Clara) 7 checked off but only 4 posted.
    • (team: 9 sounds. Tory 7, Taiji 1, Crysta 1) some checked off
    • (team: 17 sounds. Ali 5, Jennifer 6, Kristin 6) all checked off
    • (team: 7 sounds. Val 0, oscar 0, marvel 7) nothing checked off
  • Media sketchbook
    (so far: tory, marvel, kristin, Ali)
  • Venice sketchbook
    (so far: Oscar, Jennifer, Kristin, Marvel)
  • Google Locations added to Soundcloud descriptions

In Class

  • Talk about next project: Recreating Atlanta
  • Add  Latitude and Longitude to soundcloud posts
  • assess your teams work for Favorite Sounds:
    • interviews
    • interview layouts
    • sound recording
    • uploads and posting
    • checking uploads against the spreadsheet
  • Begin exploring sound qualities for Recreating Atlanta

Out of Class

  1. Recreating Atlanta
    - Select sounds. Create a post in Tumblr with the names of the sounds and links. Characterize each sound.
  2. Weekly Listening: Anders Dahl (3.57 / 6.00) Russolo (1:05) (1:42)
  3. Sound Journal #12 – Foley Kitchen
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Week 13 – 12/01

Jul 072011

In Class

  • DUE: Sound Journal #12 – Foley Kitchen
  • Atlanta Sound selections to recreate.
  • Experiment with sounds using both the amplifier and listening through your recording device.
  • Experiment with different spaces within which to record.

Out of Class

  1. Recreating Atlanta
    - Complete all recording and documentation
    - Create an “album cover” for the sound
    - upload 5 minute edit and post to Sound Cloud and Tumblr with album art
    - edit documentation video (2 minutes) and post to tumblr
  2. Sound Journal – Reflective journal
    consider the projects, collaborative work and journal writing you have done in this course.
    Write (legibly!)
  3. Team Evaluations
    Complete the online evaluation form for your group.
    Form will be available on Friday night. Expect an email from John.
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Week 14 – 12/08

Jul 072011

DUE: Recreating Atlanta

  1. 5  minute recording + “album cover” image
    Posted to Soundcloud AND to the blog
  2. Video documenting your recreation
    Posted to the blog
  3. DUE: Team Evaluations
    Fill out the Google Form
  4. DUE: Sound Journal #14
In Class
  • Present Atlanta Recreations to the class

Out of Class

  1. Weekly Listening:
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Week 15 – 12/15

Jul 072011
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