THE HOW TO FOR CIRCUIT BENT AUDIO START TO FINISH

(MAKE SURE YOU FULL SCREEN THIS VIDIEO SO YOU CAN SEE WHATS GOING ON.)

COLLABORATIVE AUDIO HOMEWORK

DUE THURSDAY MARCH 1ST BY MIDNIGHT

Everyone is to create 2-100 separate recordings from their own personal bent toys and post them to the collaborative dropbox folder. Everyone should have gotten an email if you didn't please email me:>>>>>>>> erisouth@iusb.edu <<<<<<<<<<<<<< Since we are dealing with random audio there will be no class on THURSDAY>>Instead you will either check out a audio recorder from the library and or shoot it with a decent video camera and export the audio only out of Premiere <<<Demo in class. The file formats that are preferred are: Aiff or wav.... 

PART TWO HOMEWORK: DUE MARCH 6TH

Everyone is to use everyone else's audio to create a 2-3 min soundscape, song, extra... With the use of Premiere or GarageBand, and or any other audio software you might feel more comfortable with. Explore with layering ,looping, panning, fading, extra... You are to use http://soundcloud.com/ to upload your sound piece and embed into the blog like VIMEO. 

Sonic Explorations

http://www.ubu.com/sound/index.html

 http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html

http://www.ubu.com/sound/cage.html

http://www.ubu.com/sound/stockhausen.html

DJ SPOOKY: http://www.ubu.com/sound/radio_radio/miller.html

http://www.ubu.com/sound/oliveros.html

http://www.ubu.com/sound/young.html

http://www.ubu.com/sound/reich.html

http://www.ubu.com/sound/vitiello.html

http://vimeo.com/user2331789

http://www.ubu.com/sound/neuhaus.html

JOURNAL UPDATE

The Journals will be Due MARCH 6TH at the beginning of class and will need to cover at least one if not all of the following topics: Resetting Theory by Seb Franklin, 9 Evenings of theater and technology (videos), and you experiences with circuit bending in and outside the class as you explore and find new sounds.

CIRCUIT BENDING AUDIO COLLECTIVE

In preparation for tomorrows class I ask everyone to sign up for a free dropbox account if you don't already have one. Tomorrow we will be exploring unknown circuitry for aleatoric sounds. Your homework will be to then to make 3-4 completely different sound recordings and post them to this shared DROPBOX folder I provide. You will then use everyones recordings to make a 1 min. audio: soundscape, song, remix, happening, piece, ect. This will be due the following Tuesday March 6th. More details on the how to tomorrow in class.

P.S. If you have your own small screwdrivers please bring them for tomorrows class. Thank you...\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/

ART AND TECHNOLOGY

Signal Processing EXTENDED INFO

Highlights from MAGIC MONTAGE AND IMAGE PROCESSING.

Explanations of some of the Analog Synthesizers 

in the computer a tool for thought experiments reading.

A Rough Guide to Analog Video Synthesis:

Entering . Peter Donebauer . 1974 from RRRRR on Vimeo.

The imagery and sound in Entering were performed 'live' by Donebauer and composer Simon Desorgher, and recorded in real time, using a colour TV studio at the Royal College of Art. Later Donebauer and Richard Monkhouse developed the Videokalos synthesizer, as an image-sound performance instrument. Entering was transmitted by the BBC in 1974.

SIGNAL PROCESSING:

VideoGrams by Gary Hill

Sums & Difference by Gary Hill

Electronic Linguistics by Gary Hill

C-Trend by Woody Vasulka

Form Data Form by Jason Bernagozzi

Monica Duncan

Matthew Schlanger

Andrew Deutsch

TONIGHTS CLASS CONVERTED TO LAB TIME

TONIGHTS CLASS IS GOING TO BE CONVERTED TO LAB TIME

ATTENDANCE IS NOT BEING RECORDED

I will be at our class time to help anyone who needs it or look over what you have already accomplished. If you are primarily working from home then feel free to stay home and work. Please utilize this time to finish your processing assignment. 

THE FILTER AS AN EXTENSION OF OUR SENSES

PROCESSING THE IMAGE: Alternative Visions 
(100 Points) DUE FEB. 23RD
(Video with statement should be posted to the blog.)


Assigned Reading for NEXT WEEK: ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY PDF (<<Click Here)

Your assignment is create a 2-3 min video with the use of any and all of the video effects within the video effects folder on Adobe Premiere. I want you to shoot your own footage that conceptual develops around the idea of seeing, being seen, and alternative ways of seeing. You are to experiment with layering various filters that ideally will push the boundaries of how you perceive the footage. It is in the layering of filters and the exploration of the possibilities where new ways of seeing can be found. You will loose points if you only use one effect "out of the box". I want you to modify, alter, layer, copy & paste, and play. A successful project will be one that is full of play. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. I then want you to write about how the filters you placed upon your footage and how they changed it. This will result in 2 paragraph statement that will factor into the grade. Ask yourself these questions: How does it change the content of your footage? Does it add anything or take away anything visually? Does the filter add any content of its own (The Medium is the Message)? If the visual effect was a metaphor what would it be?

Here is an example of what I would consider ample play.

MONTAGE: DESCRIBING AN EVENT

Assignment DUE Feb. 20th

MONTAGE: Creating A Cinematic Space

What does it look like?

"What is montage? There are at least a few recognizable definitions for the word. The most common of these is: a Specific Sequence of images in a film, usually without words and often set to music. For clarity I choose to call this "Montage Sequence." Many films use this technique to express the passage of time or a sequence of events with little or no dialogue." This is not what I'm going to be asking of you. As the examples I showed in class, I want you to develop a collection of elements (shots) that build something- "Tastes, sights, sounds, textures, and smells. Because film/video is purely an audio-visual medium, film montage is based on building up structures that affect the visual and audio senses." - Sergei Eisenstein.

Here are the rules. You must build up 3 different events via montage (30-45 Sec. Total) with breaks in-between each of them. Today in class I want you to develop a storyboard planning out your shots and content. You must include the extreme close-up and 2 other of the framing techniques you see below\/\/\/\/. No music allowed. Foley Techniques should be used to enhance the edit and what is taking place on screen. Use the clip from Shawn of the Dead as a good example. Focus on shapes from one frame to the next matching shapes can help the edit. Paying attention to the flow of movement from one clip to another can give the edit even more flow and oomph. You are also required within the total length of the piece to do the following camera techniques. 1-Use a tripod with no camera movement, 2-Fulid Pan, 3- Zoom, and 4-Hand Held camera movements. You are at your own creative disposal of what you decide to shoot.  

Jan Svankmajer: The Ossuary and Other Tales

VIDEO MAGIC

CLASS ANNOUNCEMENTS

DISPLACED AUDIO (30 Sec - 1 min video) Assignment DUE tomorrow Thursday Feb. 9th
EDITING MAGIC (In class dev. Tomorrow) Assignment DUE Thursday Feb. 16th
NEXT JOURNAL ENTRY DUE Friday Feb. 17th

PLEASE Disregard any printed syllabi you might have and look to the online copy that is posted to the blog for updated information. Remain flexible with me... Congrats on you appropriated remix videos good work. Below is a short tutorial video for what I am expecting for tomorrow nights class. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

READING FOR THURSDAY NEXT WEEK FEB 16th

COMPUTER A TOOL FOR THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11746226/The%20Computer.pdf

ONLY READ THE MACHINE VISION SECTION PG. 131

NEXT JOURNAL DUE ON FEB. 17TH