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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]

Admins:

**Summer Python Bootcamp: Register by July 8th**

  • PUG/GCDF are hosting an online Python bootcamp for the GC Community this summer, 5 weeks from July 11 to mid August (MWF, 4-5pm EST). We encourage total beginners, GC Digital Research Institute alums, and people who want to strengthen their fundamentals to join us as we go through the acclaimed Python Crash Course textbook.

    More advanced python users, please pass this blurb on!

    Here’s our tentative schedule:

    • Week of 7/11/2022 – Installation, expectations for the summer, Chapter 1: Getting Started, Chapter 2: Variables and Simple Data Types
    • Week of 7/18/2022 – Chapter 3: Introducing Lists, Chapter 4: Working with Lists, Chapter 5: if Statements
    • Week of 7/25/2022 – Chapter 6: Dictionaries, Chapter 7: User Input and while Loops, Chapter 8: Functions
    • Week of 8/1/2022 – Chapter 9: Classes, Chapter 10: Files and Exceptions, Chapter 11: Testing Your Code
    • Week of 8/8/2022 – Book Project

    We hope that participants are able to stay on throughout the summer.

    If you are interested and could commit to the bootcamp to the best of your ability, please fill out this form by July 8th if you are interested so we can tailor the experience to your needs and interests.

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