Readings
- S Graham, S Eve, C Morgan, A Pantos, “Hearing the Past,” Electric Archaeology (January 5, 2015). http://electricarchaeology.ca/2015/01/05/hearing-the-past/
- Jonathan Sterne, “The mp3 as a Cultural Artifact,” New Media and Society 8, 5 (2006): 825-842. http://sterneworks.org/mp3.pdf
- “The Loudness War,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
- Matt Mayfield Music, “The Loudness War,” YouTube video (October 7, 2006), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ
- Aske The Floppykat, “Quick beat made on the SP 1200,” YouTube video, (September 26, 2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjJWESw3vSY
Additional Readings in Zotero Library
Activities
Morning (9:00am to 12:00pm)
- Discuss the Readings
- Introduction to collections of sound, sound-based digital projects
- Digital Methods: working with sound and media, Notes from Mike
- 10:30 Break (15 minutes)
- Hands-on Session: Preparing sound/video files for sharing
- Hands-on Session: Use Audacity to work with sound
Lunch (12:00 to 1:00pm)
Afternoon (1:00pm to 4:00pm)
- Digital Methods: Building arguments with sound and video–some of this will be covered tomorrow by Kelly so we won’t do much of this today.
- Hands-on: SoundCite, https://soundcite.knightlab.com/
- 2:15 Break (15 minutes)
- Digital Methods: Visual Analysis
- Hands-on: Visual comparisons with Juxapose
- Example
- Make your own. Do you buy my argument that this lithograph from 1870s, http://www.stampingamericanmemory.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Gast_american_progress.png, influences the design of this image in 1900s? http://www.stampingamericanmemory.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/chapter1_philatelistsdream_2scan.jpg
- Example
- Demo: Image plotting with IMJ, http://www.zachwhalen.net/pg/imj/
- Discussion: Teaching Applications
