{"id":56,"date":"2010-10-09T17:53:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T00:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-08-29T20:03:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T03:03:45","slug":"2-re-audiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"2: Re: Audiography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/re-audiography.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59\" title=\"re-audiography\" src=\"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/re-audiography.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/re-audiography.jpg 250w, https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/re-audiography-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now for the second entry in your audio portfolio. \u00c2\u00a0This one will be a response to the work of your peers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aims of the Exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For you to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unpack how sounds influence other people&#8217;s lives in ways both similar and different from yours.<\/li>\n<li>Use voice-over narration to respond to your peers&#8217; work.<\/li>\n<li>Consider how you represent yourself (e.g., what you tell or don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell your audience) through your own voice.<\/li>\n<li>Gain some significant experience (i.e., more than you did with your audiography) in editing audio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Constraints for Audio<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minimum eight samples from the audiographies in your cluster (two per audiography)<\/li>\n<li>Between two and three minutes long<\/li>\n<li>One text title (for your blog entry), but no other text<\/li>\n<li>Record voice-over only<\/li>\n<li>Editing: only your voice, overlap, and duration (no effects)<\/li>\n<li>Due: Thursday, October 21st<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) Determine who is in your research and support cluster. <\/strong>Almost every cluster will have five people. \u00c2\u00a0One will have six. Get each other&#8217;s contact information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) On the blog, listen to your cluster&#8217;s audiographies.<\/strong> As you do, take notes. Recall Schafer&#8217;s terms. What sticks out? In terms of both meaning and aesthetics, what is most striking about each audiography? What have you learned about your peers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>(3) Download your peers&#8217; audiographies. <\/strong>This approach will differ depending on your browser. \u00c2\u00a0In Google Chrome, you can simply right-click on the player and select &#8220;Save audio as.&#8221; In other browsers, you&#8217;ll need to first log-in to WordPress, then click &#8220;edit this&#8221; at the bottom of your peer&#8217;s entry, enter the back-end of the WordPress post, copy the URL from the editing pane, paste it into your address bar, and &#8212; finally &#8212; select &#8220;file&#8221; and &#8220;save page as&#8221; (an MP3) in your browser.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(4) One at a time, import the audiographies into Audacity and edit them down to a few samples that interest you.<\/strong> I recommend dedicating a track to each sample. So you are looking at (at least) nine tracks for this project (a minimum of eight tracks for the samples and one for your voice). \u00c2\u00a0<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(5) When you are finished editing all of the audiographies, determine a story.<\/strong> What links the samples? Or how might you tie them together through their differences and similarities? Start writing out your story. Give it a title (which will become the title of your audio blog entry). Please note: based on our discussions during Thursday&#8217;s class, your story should either implicitly or explicitly mobilize (read: &#8220;put to use&#8221;) Schafer&#8217;s terms for studying cultural soundscapes. In short, it should function as a demonstration of what you learned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(6) Record and add your voice track. <\/strong>Most people find it easier to write voice-over before speaking it. However, you&#8217;ll want to practice it enough so that it doesn&#8217;t sound like you are just reading what&#8217;s in front of you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(7) Edit as necessary, remembering that you should overlap your voice with the samples. <\/strong>You are also welcome to overlap the samples, if need be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(8) Play it back and assess how you are treating your peers&#8217; work.<\/strong> Don&#8217;t be rude to them and recognize that they worked hard to make their audiographies. \u00c2\u00a0What&#8217;s more, the sounds involved mean something to them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(9) Save the project, export it as an MP3, and upload it to the course audio blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>(1) Your &#8220;re: audiography&#8221; is an experiment in responding to other people&#8217;s audio through audio. It should be rhetorically aware of its audience (i.e., your cluster).<\/p>\n<p>(2) Your &#8220;re: audiography&#8221; should also gather a minimum of eight samples from your peers&#8217; work, organize them through a story that is persuasive and engaging for listeners, and add voice-over in such a way that &#8220;shows&#8221; rather than &#8220;tells&#8221; what you know about cultural soundscapes. In other words, the voice-over track should do more than describe soundscapes you hear. It should be critical and self-reflexive. It should help audiences produce knowledge, not just give them information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your audiography is due on our audio blog by the start of class on Thursday, October 21st. The blog entry should include both a title for your audio story and your playable Mp3. \u00c2\u00a0That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it. Please categorize it under \u00e2\u20ac\u0153re: audiography.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d By a comments on the blog, I will be responding directly to this entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenteryteaches.com\/205\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}