| ARTS 343. Time Arts 1 UIUC School of Art + Design 9a-11:40a Mondays + Wednesdays Art and Design Building Room 225 Fall 2016
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| Project 02: Sound Passage - DUE on Tuesday September 13th, 11:59pm |
| Using Audacity or Audition or Premiere and sound that you've recorded out in the field (with a Zoom audio recorder), you are to create two distinct, representational "sound spaces," starting with one and transitioning into the other. As a point of courtesy (and sanity), please use headphones when editing in the lab. Aim for your whole piece to last at least 45 seconds and no more than 1 minute 30 seconds long. Your "audio pictures" should be constructed out of a clear three-level spatial structure, containing three simultaneous layers of sound: a foreground, a middle ground, and a background. Sounds in different layers of depth should be recorded separately and mixed together, instead of recorded in unison. In all three levels, your sounds should be unique and chosen carefully, but it is sometimes helpful to think of these levels as increasingly specific as they rise up a pyramid-like structure. Those in the base layer, the background, are usually less distinct, even ambient, but are often needed throughout the "sound picture." The middle-ground levels of the second layer are often a little more distinct, perhaps the noises of other people in the room, and can more easily fluctuate, hesitate, change. The foreground sound is usually the loudest, the clearest, and the least reverberating. It also may not need to be present more than for one quick appearance. Your audio sources should be recorded by you using the Zoom (or using a video camera). You may only employ music or human voices in the background or middle ground. Export an mp3 (or WAV) sound file. Upload the file to Soundcloud or another audio site, email the link(s) to Deke. and then CONSIDER THIS: Production Schedule |
| Useful Links |
| Nine Components of Sound Sound Physics |
| Sound Artists |
| Janet Cardiff Joe Frank David Isay/Sound Portraits Teresa Gale This American Life ubuweb Kristin Oppenheim (Tickle) Stephen Vitiello OpSound |
| Pithy Quote |
| “There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto -- God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger. Sometimes I think they are all the same. A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.” Dorothy Allyson |