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The soundtrack as an acoustic environment: some insights from soundscape research
No full textThis chapter considers the role of soundscape in sound design practice in light of renewed academic interest arising from the ISO 12913 - Soundscape research specification. Although the ISO specification is oriented towards the needs of urban development and planning, studies which deploy it can provide helpful insight into soundscape perception and hence inform sound design practice. Drawing on perceptual construct of soundscape described in ISO 12913 and also by the World Soundscape Project, I envisage the soundtrack as a complete acoustic environment and how that might function in an audiovisual context. To that end, two graphic data representation formats used in the specification (two-dimension graph and cluster diagram) are adapted to illustrate how sound design approaches might be better represented visually across a production cycle. The chapter also considers soundscape perception as embodied listening, a concept which is not only shaping discourses in sound studies but can also inform sound design practice in emerging practices such as virtual production
Video: aesthetics/agonism/anti-dialectics
No full textThis chapter explores video as a communication medium, focussing on the history and the operation of video technology. By writing about a media archaeological approach, the author aims to explore the effects of the technology of video on models of communication, with a focus on the cultural imperatives of video’s technical operation. After briefly summarising the important work done in media theory and art history on video, the author uses the work of Vilém Flusser to explore the relationship between video technology and culture from the perspective of technical operations, rather than aesthetic or sociological phenomena. This is a perspective that has largely been missing from English-speaking media theory and allows us to approach a media historical analysis of video from an entirely new angle. From here, the author extends the media archaeology approach by arguing for the political significance of video as a form that replaces the dialetics of film with a sense of agonism
Collective Controllerism: A Non-Musician's Perspective of Interactive Dance as Controllerist Practice
No full textMusic has been constantly reinvented by a multitude of inventions. In recent years, digital technologies have given rise to practices that not only break free from traditional canons of musical literacy, but further invite engagement by artists whose predominant expressive medium is other than sound. This chapter examines this emerging phenomenon through the perspective of a collaboration between a contemporary dancer and a controllerist, i.e., a non-musician performer of electronic music using tangible interfaces for real-time sequencing, manipulation, and generation of sound. The chapter begins with the author’s reflection on his artistic identity, and the challenges of operating on the intersection of practices utilising different expressive mediums. A literature review follows, outlining the lineage of controllerism as an emergent practice borne out of commercial music technology and the transition of disc jockeys from analogue to digital equipment. Through a Practice Research methodology, a reflective work is analysed as to detail the different devices and mapping strategies that control sound, as well as designing an environment that affords dancer’s cognition of the music-making processes and allows them to utilise movement towards actively participating in a controllerist performance. With controllerism extended to a hybrid collaborative domain, the (non-) musician’s perspective shifts away from utilising movement data as merely a further input device complementing traditional controllers, and instead considers dancer collaborators as music performers that can be entrusted with commanding crucial sonic elements. The chapter concludes by suggesting ways for controllerism to become further established as a research topic through interface standardisation and the development of transcription systems
Michael Rodriguez interviews fiction writer Michael Kimball
No full textAuthor Michael Kimball talks about moving away from Michigan to become a successful writer, his education, the fiction reading series he has started in Baltimore, the life-story-on-postcard project, and his book "Dear everybody." Kimball is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Paul Clemens
No full textAuthor Paul Clemens talks about his book "Made in Detroit," the genre of memoir, and writing about race. Clemens is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
Cyberhate, Communication and Transdisciplinarity
No full textGendered cyberhate – that is, the harassment and abuse of women and girls via networked communication technologies – is a growing international problem. However, despite its devastating and human rights-violating impacts, gendered cyberhate is still frequently played down and dismissed as unimportant – as “just words” and/or “just the internet.” In this chapter, we argue that pervasive features of academic scholarship are partly to blame for this situation, and we propose corrective measures that communications scholars can employ to help remedy it. Apart from assisting international efforts to address this growing, serious problem, we argue that employing such measures can also help to reveal fertile new intellectual vistas in communications scholarship
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Tom Springer
No full textAuthor Tom Springer is interviewed about his writing career and his newest book "Looking for hickories". Springer talks about his career following after earning an Environmental Journalism degree from Michigan State University. He calls his genre "creative non-fiction" and explains how he weaves his memories into his books about life in rural and wild Michigan. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Springer is interviewed by Librarian Michael Rodriguez
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Gold standard of UK degrees is lost in translation
No full textInflated marks, overworked staff and politically compromised courses are the price of exploiting offshore UK registered students, says Michael Day
Michael Rodriguez interviews historian and author Keith Widder
No full textHistorian and author Keith Widder talks about his move to Michigan from Wisconsin, his career as Curator of History for the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, his research interests, his book "Michigan Agricultural College", and his current projects. Widder is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
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