On friday, the class learned about John Cage and chance. We tried a new way of doing binaural sound recordings with our new iriver .mp3 recorders. We drew stories from a hat. Each story had a set of instructions, and each student was given a recorder and our homemade Binaural mics (thanks Eyebeam and Mike!), and were sent on their way.
We took a break from our semester-long project of mapping our neighborhoods through sound to map the neighborhood of Bayard Rustin Highschool for The Humanities on in Chelsea.
Once we finished and digitized the recordings, we made a second piece. Everyone traded listening stations, and the students drew real-time maps of the sounds they heard. They were then asked to describe the story, and we compared it to the original stories given. It was amazing to see the difference in ideas and impressions.
Below are the recordings made by the students of the Sound and The City class. They are unedited, docuements of everyday experiences, and are small samples and sketches.
As part of this lesson, students have uploaded their audio for podcasting. I will post the itunes address once it has been registered.
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these are binaural recordings and designed to be listened to on headphones
katherine- EDIT (excerpt from neigborhood)
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