Education: Science of Sound

What is Sound? (5:05) The science of sound is explored in this NASA Connect education segment  for kids that explains the basics of sound including how it works, how it travels, and how we hear sound. Source: YouTube

Phonographer: Nature Recording Workshop

Nature Recording Workshop (3:25) This short documentary by Martyn Stewart presents an example of an annual nature recording workshop available in the Seattle area. Beginners and advanced recordists meet up and learn various crafts in the field coupled with the art of filtering and editing. Details can be found at www.naturesound.org. Source: YouTube

Soundwalk: Grand Central Terminal NYC

Soundwalk: Grand Central Terminal (4:05) This is an audio soundwalk by Carlin M. Wragg through New York City's Grand Central Terminal. It was recorded on February 3, 2011 as an exercise for Sound and The City, a course taught by Daniel Perlin for NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Sound was recorded as a 48 kHz / 24-bit stereo .WAV file and edited in Audacity. Still images were added in Final Cut Studio 7. Source: Vimeo

Soundscape: Evening Tide 2012

Evening Tide (3:08) This is a multi-image program with footage shot in north and south Brittany and Denmark. Produced by Anne-Sophie Maignant.

Project: SoundStage

SoundStage (1:27) NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program major Brett Murphy demonstrates an interactive sound mixer prototype for his thesis project. He notes, "SoundStage is a tabletop surround sound mixer with a tangible interface that allows children to explore immersive audio through interactive storytelling, and most importantly play.

The idea was to create an ambisonic surround sound mixer easy enough for a three year old to use. By moving “sound objects” around the table, users are able to pan audio around the room and immerse themselves within a soundscape of their own creation. For example, take a classic like Old MacDonald’s Farm. Depending on where children place a cow on the table, they can make a “moo-moo here, a moo-moo there, here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo-moo!”. Source: Vimeo

Project: Sound/Pressure Walk

Sound/Pressure Walk (2:13) Tish School of the Arts (New York City) student Brett Murphy explains to participants his soundwalk project at a 2010 exhibit of student work. Click on the next clip to view his video.

Pressure Walk (5:03) A soundwalk across the Brooklyn Bridge starting at the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Recorded with cameras attached to his shoes and pressure sensors in his insoles to control the opacity of the image. The audio is Binaural and headphones are best used to hear this project.

Phonography: Field Recording for Film Scoring

Field Recordings for Looper Film Score (5:08) Composer Nathan Johnson discusses the field recordings he and his team used to create a musical rhythmic and atmospheric fabric for director Rian Johnson's film Looper. Source: Vimeo

Interview: R. Murray Schafer

Murray Schafer (11:51) Composer Rafel de Oliveria interviews  R. Murray Schafer, a founding member of the acoustic-ecology movement. The interview took place at the 2011 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Conference held in Corfu, Greece.  In the  interview Schafer discusses his perception of soundscape research today; his thoughts about the artistic side of studying the soundscape; how his own music composition has been changed through his study of the soundscape; and he concludes by suggesting how new researchers might begin their study of today's soundscape. Production: Rafael de Oliveria, Patricia Lima, and Alexsander Duarte. Source: Vimeo.