![]() ![]() ![]() Although acoustics is often given as the foundation for understanding sound’s nature, something different happens when we listen like anthropologists, listening for meaning first. In this session, we will discuss interpretive strategies for sound recording. #Soniclife screen wrap how to#Participants will be introduced to basic field recording techniques and sound study debates and will begin thinking about how to tell stories and share experiences through sound. What is sound and how can it help us understand other peoples, places or things? The first day of the seminar will explore how we think about and document sound. Participants will have the opportunity to craft a sound ethnographic work of their own over the course of the three-day intensive. ![]() Sound ethnographer and ethnomusicologist Peter McMurray will lead the seminar as main instructor. Scholars and audiophiles of all types are encouraged to attend. The workshop is designed to introduce participants to a range of approaches that include sound ethnography, acoustic ecology, archaeoacoustics, ethnomusicology, and aural heritage. Workshop topics will include: understanding sound basics sound walking and mapping field recording techniques DIY microphone construction sound editing working with sound and image developing stories and arguments with sound engaging audiences in critical listening noise and silence politics soundscape study and sound heritage and the ethics of sound recording. Participants will have the unique opportunity to develop skills and workshop current projects with guests working in a range of fields, including sound art, radio, music, film, anthropology and media studies. Produced by UnionDocs in partnership with Jen Heuson and Peter McMurray, this intensive will introduce the practical methods and theoretical debates of sound ethnography to nonfiction media makers, artists and scholars. Over the course of the workshop, participants will develop a range of sound recording techniques and will learn to craft stories, arguments and artworks from recorded sounds. Through critical listening exercises, practical demonstrations, guest presentations, readings and discussions, participants will explore what sound is and what it does, learning to critically and ethically integrate sound recording and sound research into their artistic and scholarly practices. This three-day intensive will immerse participants in using sound to understand and document the world. ![]()
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