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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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Public Transportation Project Feedback?

  • Dear Sound Studies and Methods group!

    I wanted to get some feedback on how to polish/finish a sound side project I’ve been kicking around – a collection of human made screeches to imitate Boston’s infamous Green Line T (subway) trains. The link is to an Evernote page that contains m4a files.

    At first I’d just thought this was a fun, shared social experience for folks who live in Boston but now I want to polish it to share with folks as a call for more investment in our public transportation infrastructure. Any advice on how to bring this production together would be enormously helpful – I’m a complete beginner! Thank you Di, Param and Prof. Demirjian for encouraging me to share.

    Thank you so much,

    Leanne

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  • Hey Leanne!

    Great to see you engage this forum. Your project sounds very fascinating (especially around Halloween!) and I would encourage you to begin by thinking about the end and then building towards it. If you’re thinking about sharing these screeches via a website, you could begin by drawing out on a piece of paper what you’d like that website to look like. Make a note of where you’d like to use texts and images to explain the rationale and methods behind this project. Decide how you would like a visitor to your website to access these screeches. Lay out where they will they appear on the webpage. This is a technique called storyboarding and it basically gives you a goal to work towards. Once you have an initial design, you can think about a platform to host and present this website. As you begin building it, you might have better and ideas, and then you can adjust end goal as needed.

    What do you think? Were you considering building a website to share the screetches? Were you considering a different format?

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