Audio+Installation


 * Site-Specific Sound**

In this assignment, you will use sound as your primary material to construct a site-specific experience for your listener. Your goal is to change the listener’s perception of the space that is occupied by the body and the audio. There are many ways to approach this problem. Some possible approaches include, but are not limited to:


 * Narrative:** constructing a linear, story-like scenario for the listener to follow or participate in. The narrative might be directly related to the site and you might use both language and abstract sound to construct the work.


 * Abstraction:** While it may be debatable as to whether sound is ever truly abstract, you might focus on sounds that could change the mood of an occupied space.


 * Transposition:** Replacing native sound with sound from another space or time.


 * Instructional:** Speaking directly to the listener.

While I have broken the assignment into these 4 **strategies**, your final solution will more than likely use some sort of combination of these, or strategies you may find on your own.

The final work will be an mp3 file. We will compile the class projects into an “album” which will include a map of the locations. The listeners (and the class during critique) will be able to take a tour of the sites, featuring the audio works of the group.
 * Technology**- You will be able to collect audio from any number of sources- your video camera is most likely the best candidate for the job, though you will be able to use a voice recorder, your phone, instruments or any other source you can think of. We will be editing the project in GarageBand in the lab.

Work must me at least 3 minutes in length Must have at least 3 sources of audio (ex. Site recordings, musical instrument, and downloaded effects) A photograph of your site (taken by you) needs to be included with your work.
 * Other Requirements:**

Your first task is to pick a **location**- your location should be somewhere on the National Mall. You may choose the location for any reason that is pertinent to your work, though you might consider various formal, content related (such as personal history with the site), or contextual considerations. Since we are using such a politically and historically “loaded” site, it is important to approach the work with a clear goal in mind. A poor work will function as just an audio history tour or political treatise. A successful work will lead the viewer towards a complex, unexpected understanding of both the audio and the site.
 * Location:**



I want you to find a work of art that features sound as a key component and that you find particularly interesting. It can be a work in any medium, sculpture, video, installation, mixed media. Everything is game except for something that could be described as "music." (we are trying to branch out here) Post your find on your blog, whether it is an embedded youtube video or a link to a site. Have this posted by Monday. Here are some links to get you started- links:

[] is a user activated sound installation meant to experienced in the Boston metro. Site has a description of the project.

[|Generator Online] [|EMF Institute Aldrich Sound Art] [|sound art links] [|Sound Is Art] [|Sound Art] [|Some Stuff] [|Bill Fontana: Urban Sound Sculpture] [|Times Square's Sound Sculpture - Video Library - The New York Times] [|aFalles5001] [|free103point9 | Transmission Arts] [|New Albion Records - NA022] [|Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller | Installations] [|Kabir Carter] [|porch]