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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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NYU Cinema Studies event on 12/5: Field Recording and Documentary Sound

  • Posted by Kelsey Chatlosh on November 27, 2018 at 5:15 pm

    Hi all,

    Next Wednesday, December 5th, the NYU Department of Cinema Studies is hosting an event on “Field Recording and Documentary Sound: Practice, Ethics, and Aesthetics,” featuring filmmakers and sound artists Stephanie Spray, Joshua Bonnetta, and Ernst Karel. More info below.

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    Sharing from Cinema Studies at NYU’s Facebook event:

    Field Recording and Documentary Sound:
    Practice, Ethics, and Aesthetics

    Wednesday, December 5 at 7:00 pm
    Michelson Theater
    NYU Department of Cinema Studies
    721 Broadway, 6th Floor

    Traditional documentary studies places particular emphasis on the authenticity and reception of visual representation of events and situations. While discussions of images dominate the discourse around documentary, audio recording and mixing are often overlooked or under-theorized with regard to the understanding of non-fiction media.

    The purpose of this event is to examine practices and ethics of field recording in documentary art by looking at and listening to works by non-fiction artists who incorporate diverse strategies of sound recording into their practices.

    Filmmakers and sound artists Stephanie Spray, Joshua Bonnetta, and Ernst Karel will present on practices of audio capture, strategies of sound mixing and collage, and the ethics of combining image and sound in non-fiction media works, and then join a discussion with film scholars Lukas Brasiskis and Leo Goldsmith focusing on the aesthetic, perceptual, and ethical implications of using sound in documentary.

    The event is organized by Lukas Brasiskis and Leo Goldsmith in collaboration with the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU.

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    NYU Tisch School of the Arts provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations should be made at least two weeks before the date of the event when possible. Request accommodations here: https://forms.tisch.nyu.edu/page/s/accessibility-request-form

    Find the above info and Facebook event here.

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