Lost Generation (inspiration)

Worth viewing

"This video was created for the AARP U@50 video contest and placed second"

Remix Extraordinaire

A fascinating remix. Story from today's All Things Considered--and a video--at 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101959636

"The latest viral video doesn't just come from YouTube — it's a remix of it. Amateur musicians with video cameras and homemade gadgets are all the playthings of an Israel-based musician and producer named Kutiman, who blends their sounds and images into unique songs. . . "

inspiration (audio)

"Writing is as much a sonic practice as a textual one"




Philip Tagg

What a Scream!

--experimenting with detective themes--

From YouTube description:

One of fifteen experiments in writing typical detective themes, "I Recall Bacall" has been set here to classic film noir footage. Silly credits are added in typical forties font. I use this music (and visual) genre study in my film music teaching.

Others: at Tagg audio

Intel Inside (Jingle Analysis)

From YouTube description: Part 1 of extended version demonstrating what the famous 4-note Intel inside jingle mans and how it works. Part 2 is longer and includes intertextual connotations and musical commutations.

Readings for Week 3

Kitchen Sisters (producer) (28 April 2000). "French Manicure" NPR> Lost and Found Sound.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1073505

Philip Tagg, "Reading Sound"

http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/597/tagg.pdf

inspiration (audio)

Inspiration

We will be working on audio for the next few weeks, so lets begin collecting some sharable links.

Here are a few:
1. Quiet American: http://www.quietamerican.org/introduction.html
[fieldrecordings]

2. Sounds from New York: http://www.soundsofnewyork.com/

3. Sound artifacts from _Lost and Found Sound_: http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/audio/index.html

4. "Worlds of Sound": A Tribute to Folkways: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96820123

[story about sound collector Moses Asch (Folkways Records)]

5. "Daisy Ad" Creator Tony Schwartz Dies (2008): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91562400

6. Tony Schwartz, 30,0000 Recordings Later (Lost and Found Sound: A Man Who Stayed in the Neighborhood): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3602539

7. An *incredible* resource for innovative uses of sound--in art, in science, "sound mapping" (ala google maps, etc), sound art, "soundscapes."
http://www.acousticecology.org/soundscapelinks.html

8. Audio Postcard: The National Hollerin' Contest"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4723224

earlier report on the National Hollerin' Contest: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1076273

7. "My T-shirt Says It All" (audio): http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/audio_library_2009.asp
Interesting audio about something that's visual, through and through. How cool is that?

8. This American Life
http://www.thislife.org

One fascinating example: "Accidental Documentaries" (7/13/07)
another: "Twentieth Century Man": http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1207

Also interesting: "The Audio Picture Show," especially "A Sense of Place"
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/audio_library_2004.asp

9. Shortlists ("A Short List is made from your experience or research or daily life. You read it out loud for about 60 seconds and then tell su at the end what the list *was*").
http://transom.org/?p=4

10. Podcasts: http://transom.org/?p=149

(and video): Home Movie Day--10.17.09: http://www.homemovieday.com/
More on home movie day: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1398009

Tips
--for recording in the field: http://www.quietamerican.org/links_diy-rec_tips.html
--on storytelling (from This American Life host Ira Glass): http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2007/03/ira_glasstips_o.html