This week the class decided to explore the sonic dimension: audification and sonification, oral history, music, past sounds, soundscapes and so on.
Readings
- Caton, “Lighting Talk on the SoundBox Story,” Soundbox (Jul 2012)
- Caton, “Embedding Sound, Analog Style,” Soundbox (Sep 2012)
- Clark, “Ecologists Convert Wildlife Professor’s Notes into Soundscape of 1940s Wisconsin,” Wired (Sep 2012)
- Haven, “Excavating an Echo,” Stanford Magazine (Sep / Oct 2012)
- Jowett, “The Problem with National Music Narratives,” The Incredible Kaleidophone (Sep 2012)
- Kramer, “Digital Sonification Studies,” Issues in Digital History (Oct 2012)
- Sword, “Brief History of Electronic Music,” Little White Earbuds (2012)
- Razlagova, “Preface: The Moral Economy of American Broadcasting,” The Listener’s Voice (2011)
- Sayers, “How Text Lost Its Source [Abstract]” (2011)
- Sterne, “The MP3 as a Cultural Artifact,” New Media and Society 8, no 5 (2006): 825-42.
Sites to Explore
- Audacity Tutorials
- Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center
- Montreal Sound Map
- Sonification Handbook
- Talking History
- Max hacks: Nike Music Shoe Video, Tectonic and The Secret Sounds of Spores
- Geo-DJ notes from Digital History Hacks
William J Turkel 