BRONX RIVER SOUND ENVIRONMENTS/Fall 2006
Parent/Child Sound Environments
The Sound Environments course was about listening. The overall trajectory of the course was to explore listening (via listening exercises and environmental sound recordings) beginning from a general perspective and gradually zooming to particular sounds within the environment. The act of recording followed a similar process from the capturing of unadulterated soundscapes with little or no transformation, to manipulated representations of the soundscape altered by editing, mixing, filtering, and other transformation of the source materials with an open source sound editing program called Audacity.
The main project consisted simply of documenting the Bronx River and its surroundings with, as well as the environmental workshops with mini disc recorders and binaural microphones, which capture sound exactly the way we hear it. The recording of the garden produced three, five minute unedited soundscapes. The students also made a mix of the three distinct recordings that gives an aural picture of the garden from three different auditory points at once a synchronic map of the garden.
Instructor: Ricardo Arias
Students: Maygen Cuadrado, Amanda Hess, Christina Hess, Helene Hess, Otis Mack, Josephina Mejia, Willie Mejia, Otis Mack, Elana Morrice, Evelyn Otiz