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FRIDAY STUDENTS: REMEMBER YOU HAVE CLASS ON APRIL 13, BUT NOT APRIL 6 DUE TO GOOD FRIDAY

ON APRIL 13, PLEASE COME TO CLASS AT 8 AM:
Bostwick,John
Brown,Hailey E
Engelsman,Taylor
Etheredge,Cameron
Guzowski,Kathleen
Jennings,Allie
Kier,Shane
Lee,Sae-M

PLEASE COME TO CLASS AT 10:30 A.M.:
Overholt,Katherine
Patch,Timothy
Ronchetti,Christen
Ross,Lyndsay
Uyrus,Haley
Wurster,Kelly
Zapor,Courtney

THURSDAY STUDENTS
Please come to class at 1:30 PM
Arneson,Kiel
Bezas,Melissa
Cappellino,Alison
Carter,Avery Lynn
Clarke,Lauren P
DeStefano,Katelin Paige
Goldstein,Jordana E
Heaton,Emily Anne


Please come to class at 4:00 PM:
Thompson,Samuel Kivimaki
Johnson,Laura K
Kalish,Matthew E
Liss,Kelsey Margare
Reddish,Megan
Rubin,Amanda B
Smigielski,Elysa Marie
Kristen Schultz

Wed Students
Please come to class at 8 AM:
Alpert,Jessica

Birns,Alison

Camacho,Marco

Clarke,Rosa

Cotter,Jacqueline

Dorfman,Yuliya

Holecko,Katie L

Leung, Kar-Kate

Wed Students:
Please come to class at 10:30 AM:
Carpenter,Kaitlyn

Cleckner,Eric

Garcia Mosqueda,Juan

McGlinchey,Jamie

Miller,Christina

Platt,Elizabeth M

Verrier,Hallie Jean

Whalen,Christina

Announcements for FRIDAY SECTION 3_30_07

DUE TODAY before you leave: get the semester outline
Make certain we have:
1) abmineo (as Quicktime); reburn it and put it under my door 363 Shaffer if necessary. Hand in by Sunday night.
2) images for the Research Stills/Image Project;
3) images from last week labeled if you didn’t hand them in last week

I will put announcements on the blog provided we maintain focus during announcements and have Q&A at that time

Technical Notes:
Burn movies as Quicktime>Full Quality to create a smaller file size; use dvd if over 470 MB

Reminders: play/edit/burn your work from the desktop, not an external drive

Please turn in your Abmineo as a Quicktime Full Quality CD next week if your turned it in as an iMovie this week.

Hand in your disks when you arrive, first thing.

DUE FRIDAY April 13: Research Stills Project

Read Einsteins Dreams before you edit anything more. Online Reserve

We are having a split class because we need to be all together for the video technical intensive, and because we have guest critics coming in to help you critique your work and think about ideas for your final video. Begin thinking about how you want to approach your final video.

Next week we are having a half-class with guest critics. I will post the time you should show up for your critique on there blog.

Burn your disk the day before it is due and test it on a different computer. Burn Research Stills on disk as QUICKTIME movie on disk. Will always put things on disk – hard drives didn’t work. See manual for info on how to burn if you don’t recall the demon.

Remember to keep blogging
***Blogs from now on: only 1 of your “3 Things I Learned or Noticed” should be technical

Announcements for THURSDAY SECTION 3_29_07
Before you leave: get the semester outline

Technical Note:
Burn movies as Quicktime>Full Quality to create a smaller file size; use dvd if over 470 MB

Reminders: play/edit/burn your work from the desktop, not an external drive

Please turn in your Abmineo as a Quicktime Full Quality CD next week if your turned it in as an iMovie this week.

Due Next week: Research Stills Project
We are having a split class because we need to be all together for the video technical intensive, and because we have guest critics coming in to help you critique your work and think about ideas for your final video. Begin thinking about how you want to approach your final video.

Next week we are having a half-class with guest critics. I will post the time you should show up for your critique on this blog.

Burn your disk the day before it is due and test it on a different computer. Burn Research Stills on disk as QUICKTIME movie on disk. Will always put things on disk – hard drives didn’t work. See manual for info on how to burn if you don’t recall the demon.

Remember to keep blogging
***Blogs from now on: only 1 of your “3 Things I Learned or Noticed” should be

Announcements WED SECTION March 28, 2007
Technical Note:
Burn movies as Quicktime>Full Quality to create a smaller file size; use dvd if over 470 MB
For your convenience: there is an illustrated hand out in the Time Arts Reader.

Reminders: play/edit/burn your work from the desktop, not an external drive

Please turn in Quicktime CD next week if necessary (i.e. you handed in your project in iMovie format rather than as a Quicktime movie)

Next week:
Online article: Einstein’s Dreams only is req; there are other articles that are for extra credit; go to syr.edu>library>circulation>course reserves>search summit reserve >beffel>einstein’s dreams>
Remember: there is more than one article under this heading. The other articles may be read and blogged about for extra credit.

Burn disk the day before and test it on a different computer. Research Stills on disk as QUICKTIME movie on disk. Will always put things on disk – hard drives didn’t work. See manual (Time Arts Reader) for info on how to burn if you don’t recall the demonstration.

Remember to keep blogging
***Blogs from now on: only 1 of your “3 Things I Learned or Noticed” should be technical.

I will post the time you are supposed to show up for your crit on this blog. We are having a half-class with guest critics.

Homework for the week of March 7, 8, 9
Due upon return from spring break:

Shoot a minimum of 100 photos and bring them in on your hard drive. Don't bother to burn them to CD. We will just upload from your external hard drive.

Please label with your first initial, last name, and a title. For example: jdoe_dog

Have a great break.
If you didn't have a chance to read the article "Speed" by Oliver Sacks I highly recommend it.

ABSTRACT SOUND CRITIQUE ON YOUR BLOG (for Thursday and Friday sections only)

Please write a critique of your colleague's Abstract Sound Piece. You will critique the sound piece they did not have critiqued in class.
1) Get their CD from them in class and make sure you know which sound piece was not critiqued in class.
2) Exchange email addresses as well.
3) Open up your blog, sign in, and create a new post
4) Answer the questions below on your blog. It will be helpful to me if you copy, cut and paste the questions into the blog and then answer them.
5) Once you have answered the questions, please email your colleague your critique so they have your feedback.

Write about the degree to which the artist addressed the objectives below. You will want to be very specific and back up any claim you make with an example and description from the sound work.
1) Clear achievement of your intended emphasis: rhythm or pitch.

2) Clear achievement and integration of simultaneous sounds into each work without creating music or using ordered language (i.e. avoid emphasis on a pyramidal sound structure). Listen for a sense of flow or movement forward in time without interruption.

3) Success in transporting the listener into such a state of focus that he or she experiences a state of flow as defined in your reading last week.


DEMETER SCENT ARTIST AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS

Listen to this artist follow his intuition throughout his creative process.

Extra credit opportunity for later in class after you are done critiquing:

If time allows listen to the interview at: http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/show041004.html

Listen to the short interview on SMELL.

Blog about the research methods of Demeter.

How does he pay attention?

What role does focus play in his creative process?

What kinds of questions do you think he asks himself once he has begun making a scent?

Can you make any parallels between how he balances aspects of a scent and how you balanced aspects of your abstract sound work? (There is no wrong answer here, just give this some thought and see whether or not it evokes any answers for you. It is a question that works for some and not for others and that is OK)

RESEARCH SOUND PROJECT EXAMPLES
Due before next class period - however I suggest listening early in your process to gain a broad vocabulary of how sound works can be organized and edited.

Listen to the sound examples that are on the computers during open studio hours. You can find them on the computer by:
1) Click on the desktop
2) Press the F key and the apple key simultaneously
3) The finder/search box will appear: type in Rsch.
4) You will see how to navigate to the folder with examples. There is a subfolder of student examples.
5) If you cannot find the folder, ask for help
6) There are two backup CD's at the equipment check out counter just in case...

Listen to at least 3 student examples (located in a subfolder titled Student Examples). Also listen to at least 3 professional examples. Write a compare/contrast analysis of two students' examples using the sound vocabulary you have gained in your exercises so far this term. Write a second compare/contrast analysis of two professionals' examples as well.

You will write a total of 2 compare/contrast analysis pieces: 1 comparing two student examples and another complaring two professional examples.

RESEARCH SOUND PROJECT

Goals
Make a sound piece about your research topic/theme.
Make it matter. Invest yourself. Take risks. Experiment.
Define and lead your own creative practice from brainstorming to evaluation.

Rationale
One of the big questions driving this course is “How do you make work that matters to you using digital media?” As you develop as an artist/designer, you become increasingly free to, and responsible for, forming your work. This assignment throws the ball back into your court and challenges you to lead your own creative practice within the supportive environment of our class. You are invited to take recording equipment out into the world, and to return to the studio to edit what you have gathered as you see fit, in accordance with your self defined goals and objectives. This is your opportunity to apply the realizations and information you have gathered up to this point. Integrate them into a work that realizes your vision of your listeners’ experiences, whomever they might be.

Objectives
1. Consider what you hope the audience will gain from your work and develop the most appropriate genre for your work (or vice versa). This includes achievement of an appropriate level of craft.
2. Formulate questions that will help you develop your work through stages of brainstorming, conceptualization, experimentation, refinement and evaluation.
3. Take risks with lots of different kinds, and degrees, of contrasts.

Vocabulary
Intentions
Genres
Formulating questions

Obstructions
Do not use or make music. Music is defined as the presence of all three: beat, harmony and melody.

Part 1: Clips Due: ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬_________________
A CD containing the number of individual sound clips you find necessary
Part 2: Research Sound Work Due: _________________
A single, layered sound work

Procedures & Helpful Advice
One of the most common errors with this assignment is that students make assumptions about what their project should sound like (i.e. you assume it should be documentary interviews, representational sound, abstract sound, image associative, or of a certain length or mood). This assignment has very few parameters. It challenges you to determine the appropriate structure for your sound and the best length. Don’t put boundaries around yourself that aren’t really there.

• This work should be carefully crafted but it doesn’t have to be polished. This means that if distortion makes sense in your project and you use it intentionally then it is not a problem.

• Break your work into two parts over two weeks: 1) recording sounds & 2) editing

Part 1: Clips
Procedures
• Due in one week at the beginning of class. Burn your disc before the day of class.

• When creating your sound pieces, use the Sound Studio program unless we discuss other options first, and work in the lab as is expected with all assignments.

• Test your sound on the sound system we will use for critique.

Part 2: Final Research Sound
Procedures
• Due in two weeks at the beginning of class. Burn your disc before the day of class.

• When creating your sound pieces, use the Sound Studio program unless we discuss other options first, and work in the lab as is expected with all assignments.

• Test your sound on the sound system we will use for critique.

Labeling Your Work
Please see the file labeling sheet for directions on how to label your disk, disk icon, files.

Evaluation
Evidence of in depth research, exploration, risk taking, and experimentation as presented in blog and sound clips
Appropriate level of craft
Links between your intentions and form/genre
Timely completion of both parts of this assignment