We’ll be dedicating our final two classes to presentations of our final projects! Albert, Or, Logan, and the Saima-Juno duo have offered to present on May 8. That leaves everybody else for May 15. We can dedicate roughly 20 minutes to each person (30 minutes for duets). You should aim to limit your bit to roughly 10… Read More »
James Ferraro: 100% March 23, 2014–June 13, 2014 Musician James Ferraro presents new works composed for specific sites within the infrastructure of MoMA PS1. For Ferraro, hotel lounge playlists, elevator music, and ringtones have become psychological and architectural components to the space of commerce and daily life. Such audio helps smooth the interactions between people,… Read More »
You’ll note our our class schedule that your final project proposals are due before class on April 24; we’ll be discussing those proposals in class that day. You’ll find info on the proposal format and length, and submission instructions, in the Assignments section.
Join Skip Lievsay, Academy Award-winning sound mixer for GRAVITY, at Made in New York Media Center Saturday April 19 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM ** special student rate of $20 to attend using the code: MCGravity ** Skip will discuss the films that have influenced him such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and How the West Was… Read More »
Classes have been canceled on February 13 due to snow. We’ll simply push back all of our lessons by one week. So, on February 20 we’ll address “Sounding Bodies.” Next week’s class — and all subsequent classes — will meet on campus, in 55 W 13th St., Room 909. (We can explain the Dumbo Media… Read More »
Jonathan Sterne calls, in the intro to his Sound Studies Reader, for “sonic imagination” – drawing from C. Wright Mills’s “sociological imagination” and Anne Balsamo’s “technological imagination” T.S. Eliot: “‘The auditory imagination’ is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, for penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word; sinking to the… Read More »