Week 6 (Oct. 25) RHIZOPHONIA & MACHINED SOUND

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 BOOSteamidity (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

WAVENET speech excerpts

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)

4, Quick Audacity review

5. Mahnaz Project One!

6. Questions about Project TWO.

FOR NEXT WEEK

1. 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.)

DOWNLOAD AUDACITY HERE.

If these are video files, make sure to save them as / convert them to audio formats for editing (mp3, WAV).

Online YouTube to MP3 converterAnother one here. 

2. WORK ON PROJECT TWO