Join us for the first GCDI Sound Series event of the spring semester!
“Field-Recording: Beyond Your Ears” by Zach Poff this Tuesday, February 27th, 6:30-8:30pm at The GC in room C197 (lower level)
GC Digital Initiatives (GCDI) Sound Series presents an interactive talk with Zach Poff, a New York area media artist, educator, and maker-of-things. Zach Poff will introduce “expanded” recording techniques using D.I.Y transducers to reveal hidden sounds, sonify non-acoustic phenomena, and challenge the assumption of the human listening subject recording “in the field.” We will explore contact mics (which respond to the vibrations of objects), binaural mics (for 3D audio), hydrophones (for underwater listening), synesthetic light-to-sound conversion, VLF radio, and ultrasound. We will listen to examples of sound art, music, and installation works where expanded recordings provoke conversations about subject-hood and “post-human” listening, taking into consideration how the work is diffused into space (via traditional and specialized speaker designs, soundwalks, broadcasting, live-streaming, etc). These techniques are quite accessible for those with more curiosity than money, so he’ll share his resources to help you build transducers for your own work. Bring a sound recorder if you would like to probe CUNY GC’s hidden soundfields.
This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are encouraged. Find more information and register here.
GCDI Sound Series:
Here is the lineup of all the GCDI Sound Series events scheduled so far for this spring semester. Short abstracts for each and more information on the series can be found on our website cuny.is/gcdisound:
2/27 Field-Recording: Beyond Your Ears
3/6 Kentucky Bourbon Tales: Oral History Project, Digital Archive and Documentary
3/7 Doing Digital Oral Histories Workshop
3/13 Sound! Workshop
3/20 Podcasting Workshop
3/22 Short Documentaries ITP Skills Lab
3/27 Audio Annotation with Praat and Python
All events are free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged. You can also follow along with our Twitter hashtag #GCDIsound.
Find more information on the GCDI Sound Series and all of our workshops and events this semester, as well as how to register at: https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/.
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