TETRAD ON RECORDING!
WORKS IN THE LECTURE
The Get Down (2018) (excerpt from Season 1, Episode 2)
Grandmaster Flash – Adventures on the Wheels of Steel (1981)
Mix Master Mike – Terrorwrist (Beneath the Under) (1995)
RP BOO – Steamidity (2013)
Milan Knizak – Broken Music (1970s)
William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops 2 (2002)
Yasunao Tone – Music for Wounded CD (1997)
Bernhard Gunter – Détails Agrandis, Part 1 (1998)
VODER video demo
IN CLASS
1. RECORDING AS PRODUCTION
2. Listening questions (Westerkamp, The Conversation, Mystery Piece, Pamela Z and Steve Reich)
3. Space listening exercises continued (from Week 5)
FOR NEXT WEEK
1. WORK ON PROJECT TWO
2. SPEECH RE-EDIT
Find a recording of a political speech downloaded from YouTube or archive.org etc.. Your task is to draw the listener’s attention to the rhythms and flows of the speech rather than to the content being expressed. You can use repetition, time stretching/compression, pitch transformations, any kind of editing. (All of these operations are possible in Audacity.)
If these are video files, make sure to save them as / convert them to audio formats for editing (mp3, WAV).
Online YouTube to MP3 converter. Another one here.
3. RESEARCH the sound & control link that you have been assigned: come prepared to talk about its context, implications, modes of operation etc.