​​00 assignments: SoundSCAPE
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​​ASSIGNMENT #1 [for Sept 3rd]

​​What is a city? What is sound, image, space? How do we drift? What do we learn?
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​​• General assignment: Browse the links page, listen to the soundscapes on Spotify, SoundCloud, bandcamp, start gathering inspiration. Take notes.  
​​​+00 links: SOUNDSCAPE & SCORE​ 
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​​• Watch three films: Blowup, Conversation, Blowout.
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​​• Read the Preface in Tomlinson’s A Million Years of Music .
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​​• Record one brief soundscape from your week, write a description; 
​​you may use a phone, videocamera or just a microphone. 2-3 minutes.
​​Save this work to a blog, google docs, etc.
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​​• Look at / listen to Anne Guthrie’s work
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Tune In: Soundscapes of New York | Urban Omnibus
Composer and acoustician Anne Guthrie explores our fraught relationship with urban sounds and takes us on twelve sonic explorations of the city.
urbanomnibus.net
Tune In: Soundscapes of New York | Urban Omnibus • urbanomnibus.net
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​​• Look at / listen to these projects: 
​​https://www.optophono.com/acousticcitieslondonbeirut
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​​• Also these beautiful field/map/scape albums:
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Sono Space
sonospace.bandcamp.com
Sono Space • sonospace.bandcamp.com
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​​• Read about Walking, sounding, mapping: 
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A Place for the Senses, Part 2 – Soundscapes
A few months back, I posted part one of this dual post on sensory ways of interpreting spaces and art with a focus on the amazing work around Smellscapes. Part two, as advertised, will shift gears …
www.hiddenhydrology.org
A Place for the Senses, Part 2 – Soundscapes • www.hiddenhydrology.org
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​​ASSIGNMENT #2  [for SEPT 10th]

​​THEME: FEEDBACK LOOPS
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​​PERSONAL SOUND PRACTICE ASSIGNMENT: 
​​• Start at least one day with a 20 minute sound meditation. Listen to a piece
​​which is deeply quiet, layered and relaxing. Continue your day from that 
​​point. 
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​​• Record another short soundscape/field/walk soundscape.
​​• create a blog page and keep your work in progress in a google drive or dropbox folder
  • ​​to share with your fellow students.
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​​FILMS TO SEE: Mirror, After Life,  Sans Soleil
​​Mirror [Tarkovsky] 
​​After Life [Kore Eda] 
​​Sans Soleil [Marker]
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​​Transcription of Sans Soleil: https://www.markertext.com/sans_soleil.htm 
  • ​​also recommended: 
  • ​​Vertigo [Hitchcock] 
  • ​​London [Keiller] 
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