Cancelled Class Monday March 26

Class is cancelled this week. Please post daily sound journal on your blog. And come next week with your sound sources. If you are familiar with Garage band proceed with editing if not bring sound sources for demo next week.

I will be checking blogs for written entry of homework (not actual sound files) this week.


Let me know if you have questions.

Lyssa
lhpaluay@mac.com

Source and Sound

Objective: Identify, Analyze and Create Sound as a method of expression.

Project: You will notice and respond to Sound as it relates to your source. Become aware of the landscape of sound in the same way you approach a painting or a photograph. Where are the subtleties? What are the shapes, values and forms of what you hear? Keep in mind your “Source.” If your Source had a voice what would it sound like? If it had a noise what would you hear?

Technical Skills: Capturing and Editing Sound

Question to ask yourself:
Would this be part of an installation or video or a separate project?

M March 19
Assignment:
-Find 3 Sound Sources for Class next week
-Create Sound recorded on a Mini disc or extracted from Video
*Daily Blog 2 entries (min. 2 paragraphs entry) relating to Sound

M March 26 – Demo of Garage Band and Working Studio
(If you miss this demo it will not be repeated and you will need to make up the work on your own)

*Daily Blog 2 entries (min. 2 paragraphs entry) relating to Sound

Bring to Class:
1. 3 sources of sound- music, voice, environmental sound, constructed sound
-Cds or recorded audio that you will import into Garage Band

(Outside Audio can be recorded on Mini discs checked out at the cage. Mini Disc tape needed. Extra step is needed to convert files to read in Garage Band. See me for more information.)
2. Hard Drive

M April 2-Open Studio for Sound Projects
Individual Meetings

*Daily Blog 2 entries (min. 2 paragraphs entry) relating to Sound

M April 9-DUE: Sound Projects (1-3 minute duration) mp3 format
Introduction of Independent Project

References: Luigi Russolo, Philip Glass, Bill Viola, Water Fahndrich

Source & Sequence

Source &Sequence

Content: Source n 1:the point of a stream of water: fountainhead b (1) : a point of origin (2) : one that initiates (3) one that supplies information (middle French sourse, from sourdre “to rise, spring forth”)

Method: Sequence n 1: a continuous or connected series: as a: an extended series of poems united by a single theme (a sonnet sequence)...e: a succession of scenes developing a single subject or phase of a film story

Medium: photographs, drawings, paintings, or a book

Identify your “Source”. Is there a piece of writing, music, a person, an artist, a time in history, a current event etc. that inspires you to create? What is your relationship to it? What would you want others to know about this source? Specifically how has it inspired you?

>Write a minimum 2 Paragraph Blog response about this “Source” and what it means to you. Due: F March 2 Post on Blog.

>Express these ideas in a project using the method of the “Sequence”. A sequence may be articulated in photographs, paintings, book etc. but are not limited to these methods.
The method of your sequence is to be determined by you. It can range between 5-15 images in your sequence.

M March 12 Due: Present Process (Unfinished Work) Sketches
Sand Mandala Construction-In Class Assignment
Bring examples of your ideas in response to your source. In small group discussions present 5- 8 images relating to source ideas/materials (include in your process notes) and preliminary sequence. (Note taking)

M March 19
Projects Due-Present in class.

Process:
Write> (Your personal response)
Research (library and on-line)> (Artists)
Project Development> (Materials, How to…, testing)
Feedback> (Process Critiques)
Response>
Artist References:
Francesca Woodman, Duane Michals
Sylvia Plachy - Signs & Relic
Kerim Rissin, The Journey is the Destination:
The Journals of Dan Eldon

Excerpt from- Buddha Mind In Contemporary Art
“I wanted to think about the process and constellation of acts-the literal physical acts and the practice-around which work forms. In my earlier works the presence of the hand’s trace or act was transparently present. In more recent works this “hand” has become invisible.
Increasingly a large part of my process of coming “to make” things extends out of the atmosphere of the books that I gather around me. Reading is a part of forming a landscape that allows work to happen, and a part of every project is the process of “finding” the book a project needs. It isn’t something that can happen by intention. Often, like the browse through the open stacks in the library, your eye is drawn to the red book next to the book you were specifically searching for...you open it and there where your eye is arbitrarily drawn is what you need. Searching is a sort of half-intentional and then...not. A process is set in place to allow things to find you.
So the process of making work is first one of waiting. And reading is one of the ways I wait. It is a process of suspending and readying oneself. It is a particular, peculiar balance between one’s need “ to know, “to find”,” to fix”, and one’s awareness that you can’t know, you can only “be”. How to guide this seemingly arbitrary process has something to do with how one trusts and recognizes or discriminates during the process.” -Ann Hamilton

CLASS MONDAY

-OPEN STUDIO LAB
-REVIEW VIDEOS

Bring:
-Mini dv tape with raw footage
-Hard Drive
-Quicktime movies

OBJECTIVE: Use Raw Footage to make a short movie Illustrating Time based Vocabulary from your research.
video may be a recreation of the scene you researched. You may edit the scene 3 different ways.

Part C:
1. Make 3 One Minute Videos in Imovie.
2. Add a Title to Name Vocabulary you are describing
3. Use Transitions.
4. Convert iMovie to a Quicktime File
5. Burn files onto a CD or Save on your Hard Drive


Due: Monday Feb. 26

Blog Posting of Research Regarding Film

Part A.
Post responses to these questions in your blog regarding the film you researched.
***Demonstrate your understanding of the vocabulary terms.***
1. Information about the film: background history, director information etc.
2. Use 5-10 keywords from Vocabulary Handouts to describe the work.
3. What are the methods, style and form they use to relate their ideas?
4. Personal observations.
5. Written response to research post on your blog


Part B.
Post 3 photos from pictures taken for your research.

Artist Talk (one requirement of class)

Rescheduled for Wed. Feb. 21 1-2pm
Brant Gallery South 3rd Floor
Artist/Curator Talk


Walter Crump-Curator of Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography

Boston, MA. ---The Brant Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art is pleased to present Walter Crump, curator of Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography. He will speak inconjunction with the Camera Obscuras that are exhibited currently in the Gallery. As photography becomes ever more high tech and digital, photographers around the globe are turning to the pinhole camera - a lensless, deceptively simple yet surprisingly versatile alternative to mainstream technology. He will show work from the artists in this exhibition from Poland, the site of much exciting contemporary pinhole photography. Their pinhole images range in mood from whimsical, witty, poetic, and mysterious to slyly subversive.