SOUND

UNIT 4: SOUND, SOUND LANDSCAPE PROJECT

Students´ pieces HERE

Objectives:

Technical: To gain a basic understanding of  multi-track audio composition software and to gain experience recording and editing sound.

Conceptual: To explore layering sound as a narrative and expressive devise to transport the audience to subjective "places"and to provoke an emotional response. To practice "active listening".

Overview:

Your challenge is to create and record a completely original sound landscape using sounds from multiple sources (recorded, downloaded...) You can use any imaginable non-instrument noisemakers as well. The piece must be a minimum of two minutes in length, and use at least 5 tracks (or layers) of sound.

References: 

Artist Janet Cardiff   http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/walks/wordsdrawn.html  

Christian Marclay     http://www.whitecube.com/artists/marclay/  

Christian Marclay Mini Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yqM3dAqTzs  

Composer Luc Ferrari   http://www.lucferrari.org/ 

 Musical Language  http://www.radiolab.org/2007/sep/24/

History of experimental sound, video and film   http://www.ubu.com/

Free sounds             http://www.freesound.org/

John Cage               http://johncage.org/

Pierre Schaeffer      http://www.allmusic.com/artist/pierre-schaeffer-mn0000679092

Vocabulary:

Track, Timeline, Tempo, Time Signature, BPM, Measure, Concrete Music, Harmony, Active Listening, Melody, Rhythm, Metre, Panning, Pitch, 

 

Materials:

Michrophone, sound recorder, downloaded free sounds, computer with Audacity and Sound Forge.