Sound Workshop

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Everyday Life,

Presentation of the Field Recording workshop (Dec 2009) at Studio Loos, 13th February 2010.

Live performance using recorded sound details from 24hrs of "everyday life".

some photos from the performance.

More at: TrendBeheer

SCHEDULE:

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monday 7th and
tuesday 8th.. I will be in Bea7 for help, consultation, etc.
wednesday 9th - free work
thursday 10th morning - Class: listening to your recordings so far - trying out in combination.
afternoon - trip to anechoic chamber in Delft with Raviv.

friday 11th morning last meeting. again listening and planning the presentation.

Opdracht - Assignment! December 2009 Phonographers

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Opdracht / Assignment: working title: Sundial Plus.

Record sounds from your own everyday environment over a period of 24 hours.
This could mean: at home, outside, in school, in the city, on the beach… a kind of audio diary.

try to spread the time of recordings over the day / night

Make sure you keep a record of exactly WHEN each sound was recorded. (this is sometimes included in the filename anyway)

We will make a piece compressing all our individual “memories” or actions over 24 hours into 24 minutes (or 48, or…?)

Use whatever microphone technique you like to make the recordings.
You can attempt to record "what your ears hear"
or use the microphone to discover previously unheard sounds..

You may choose a short piece of sound from a longer recording, but don’t edit a piece together from separate parts –
keep the flow of time as it was, and the fragments separate.

Each fragment to be maximum 3 minutes long.

Maximum 10 minutes of sound in total.

Once we have the material, we can present it in different ways. I can think of two - other ideas are welcome:

– as a multi-channel or surround-sound installation where the sounds simply start playing at the relative time they were made.

- as a performance where each player re-interprets the sound – either just triggering the sound at the appropriate time, or remixing or processing his or her own sound in real time – but always keeping the flow of time intact – using the original recording as a kind of score for the treatment.

Schedule for NEXT WEEK:

(microphones and recorders can be borrowed up until friday - see the schedule at the EWP)

Monday – 10.30 a look at ambisonic recording and spatialisation.
Tuesday – All Day: individual help if needed.
Wednesday - free for individual work
Thursday <> – ( afternoon trip to anechoic chamber with Raviv)
Friday morning: last meeting. backups. plan for presentation.

More Field Recording Photos

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Pablo has posted even more photos at...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pablosanz/sets/72157615704733231/

Recording in the sun.

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using hydrophones, parabolic reflectors and other microphones to explore the sounds above and under the sea.

FIELD RECORDING WORKSHOP MARCH 2009

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Rule No. 1: Tide Table - Check when the tide is in at Scheveningen!!!

First Listening session!

Casper Schipper - Feedback for Basedrum

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here's the link to Casper's video of the piece he made at the Installation Workshop last December.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMWYm1fbh4k&feature=channel_page

Live Space - the exhibition

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a one-evening exhibition at <> tag.
Stille Veerkade 19, Den Haag
Thursday 4 December

works with sound, light and space by students of the Institute of Sonology:

Sophokles Arvanitis , Billy Bultheel, Greg Grigoropoulos and Casper Schipper.

created during a workshop run by Justin Bennett.

1. Casper Schipper “Feedback for Bassdrum”

We see a drum and a microphone. The drum listens to its own vibrations, which we can see as well as hear. It makes “feedback” but also makes decisions about what to do next, and the live microphone makes the piece sensitive to its surroundings.

2. Billy Bultheel “Ode aan Nika “

Another feedback system –this time a visual one using a camera looking at it’s own projection. Normally this results in an “endless mirror” effect reflecting everything that passes the eye of the camera but here Bultheel changes the image subtly causing the circuit to adopt different behaviours. It also listens to its environment, reacting to the other pieces in the show.

3. Sophokles Arvanitis “Transparent Images”

A sculpture which creates and changes space – it fills the room with sound, exposing the acoustics of the space, but also introduces sounds that appear to come from elsewhere, causing events to happen.

4. Greg Grigoropoulos “Dr. Who?”

An environment where synthesised sounds expand into physical objects – strings, pieces of wood and metal containers. The often very quiet sounds travel out from one place through the strings defining and filling space.

Due to the acoustics of the <>TAG space and the sensitive, responsive qualities of the works, these pieces all interact to form a larger composition which we can experience by wandering through the spaces as active listeners combining the sounds in our heads.

With many thanks to Keir Neuringer, <> TAG, Koninklijk Conservatorium, BMB con.

getting physical

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working on making things physical - expanding processes happing inside the computer into the real world,
real acoustics - of drums, strings and the space itself. Video images listening to sounds.

loudspeakers and other sound sources

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mysterious tealeaves

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our temporary library. note english dick raaymakers book!

vibrating a paper drum covered with tealeaves creating strange patterns

Mapping the Space

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<>tag

very kindly donated their space for two weeks for this workshop sound installation.

we present our results on thursday 4th december at 19.30hrs.

as for today, we were mapping the space with sinewaves and gunshots:

download the impulse response

Phonography Workshop, Spring 2008

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Here, just for completeness, is a list of links and notes that I collected
for a spring 2008 workshop in Field Recording / Phonography at the
Institute of Sonology, Den Haag. The workshop ended with a presentation
and live performance at Lokaal 01, Breda

read INTRODUCTION

Some links to more information for the workshop.
Soundscapes:

World Forum for Acoustic Ecology

Acoustic Ecology

Stichting Klank

Stichting Klankschap

Bibliotheek van verdwenen geluiden

Examples, voorbeelden:

autumn leaves field recording compilation

acoustic radar

Sound Mirrors

sound mirror Wijk aan Zee

early recording technology

first sound recording ever

Recording Technology History

Ubu web - archive of sound art, sound poetry, experimental music.

list of books on sound and sound art + more links!

Justin Bennett.