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Sound Studies and Methods Working Group #GCDISound
The Sound Studies and Methods working group is a network of CUNY students, faculty, and staff who are interested in sharing theories, methods, and techniques related to doing qualitative and quantitative research, teaching, storytelling, and creating art with sounds and audio files, and finding resources and support from others to do so. The group is open to scholars from all disciplines to explore ways that we as researchers and makers can study and use sound in our scholarship and pedagogy.
The Sound Studies and Methods working group is part of a GC Digital Initiatives program designed to create collaborative communities of Digital Fellows, CUNY-wide graduate students, staff, and faculty to meet regularly and share their areas of interest. The working groups provide a sustained, supportive environment to learn new skills, share familiar skills, and collaborate with both the Digital Fellows and the CUNY digital community.
Members of the group are encouraged to share their projects, ideas, and questions concerning studies and uses of sounds and audio technologies through this group. This group was created after the success of the 2017-2018 GC Digital Initiatives Sound Series: a series of talks and workshops on topics related to sound analysis, comparison, theory, production, and recording — learn more about the past series at: cuny.is/gcdisound and on Twitter following the hashtag #GCDISound.
If you are analyzing, theorizing, producing, recording, or sharing sounds or audio as part of your teaching and/or research, or if you are interested in learning more about different methods for sourcing or creating sounds for storytelling, podcasting, sensory ethnography, artistic exhibitions, or oral history projects, or managing, coding, or archiving copious audio files, we invite you to join the Sound Studies and Methods working group.
[Group avatar image source: matthewgpotter, “waves” on Flickr, 2015, CC license]
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CFP: SpokenWeb Conference, Resonant Practices in Communities of Sound (May 30-31
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Hi Kelsey, hi all,
Thank you for this great lead, I submitted a proposal that was accepted!
I will be presenting “Embodying Voice” for “Resonant Practices in Communities of Sound” at the first annual SpokenWeb Sound Symposium, Simon Fraser University’s Downtown Campus, on May 30-31.
I first presented “Embodying Voice” for “Performing Knowledge” an amazing day/eve of “lecture performances” a project spearheaded by Theatre Dept. PhD’s Amir Farjoun and Mara Valederrama at The Segal Theatre, CUNY, in Dec. 2018.
In “Embodying Voice” Carolyn A. McDonough, Graduate Student, MA in DH (far left) analyzes “songs” as “maps” in the Digital Humanities context and workshop format. Participants are highly encouraged to bring a song, poem, spoken word text, monologue, aria, ode, sonnet, chant, rhyme, story, or rap to “map”. Through a projected demonstration using Voyant, a digital humanities tool used in text analysis, participants enter the corpus of a lyrical work in to Voyant which generates word visuals that can reveal previously hidden subtext toward the emotional/physical discovery process. The take-away will be a sense of “hearing with the eyes” and/or “seeing with the ears” and a working map for learning, memorizing, auditioning, recording, capturing and performing any vocal/spoken word content. (Carolyn is also a vocalist by avocation and moonlights as a voice coach to professional teen performers.)
Hi Carolyn,
This made me so happy to read. Your work sounds super interesting and congrats on the conference acceptance!! I’m so happy to hear that the group forum has been useful to you and your research
Let us know how the conference goes, and the future developments of your work! Feel welcome to post and share here if you’d like.
Sending saludos from Chile (based here for a few months for research),
All best,
Kelsey
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