revised assignments: descriptions, due dates, values

Old assignment description + grade breakdown
1 picture archive— using a collection of found, visual imagery describe a subject (person/place/thing) considering the time and space within which they live or it exists (20%)
2 sound archive—mixed tape communicating social and/or political values (answering machine, voice-mail, cell, tape/cd…) include voice or not (20%)
3 research project—on an influential visual or recording artist (20%)
4 blog—image, sound + text components (25%)


NEW ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTIONS....
1 sound archive—using recording medium of choice(answering machine, voice-mail, cell, Internet download) each student is responsible for the collection of sounds that heard together communicate coherent ideas or values—be it personal, aesthetic, or social/political: the collection can include voice elements but not traditional musical sources. Students are responsible for finding, selecting and mastering the recording technology used and finding a means to present it to the class and to me. As with the panoramic picture project, students should consider the organization of the sound elements and their formal characteristics—consider amplitude, direction, timbre, pitch, duration. (20% ~ Due November 15/16)

2 research project—on an influential sound artist (20% ~ Due November 21/22)

working in teams of three or four, students are required to conduct research on a sound artist or event (from the list attached to the next post) of common interest to the group and present the results of the research to the class. research efforts should be concerned with describing artistic intentions and processes, analyzing and interpreting key stylistic characteristics and discussing the production and distribution context within which the artist has produced his or her work or the event has emerged (historically specific movement, collective activity, technologically oriented experimentation). Research tasks should be evenly distributed. Each member of the group should demonstrate that they have gleaned a basic knowledge of the subject of their group’s research and then take responsibility for presenting a specific aspect of the research (i.e. intentions, processes, style, production context) on the artist or movement (as indicated above). Unless directly relevant to the sound experimentation, keep biographical information to a minimum. Each group participant must augment his or her verbal presentation with a sound clip of no more than five minutes in length. Each individual presentation should be between 5 and 10 minutes long

3 image/sound pairing: choose two images and two sounds and pair them expressively—formal experimentation and innovation is required. Once again, consider the concrete features of the sources as they express ideas and values (25% ~ Production in class November 28/29/ Final Presentation December 5/6))


*production class t.b.c.